Mount Erin Secondary College

I haven’t been there in the last year and a half since I’ve graduated a couple years ago but since I’ve seen this website as a advertisement, I’ve decided to conclude by honest experience about my highschool

I will not identify the year I started at the high school, but I can definitely talk about my experiences starting from year 7.. the first are you seven I was quite confident and I was pretty calm with starting a new chapter in my life out of primary School.. I was excited to make new friends and I was excited to grow myself and find my personal interests, as well as opening myself up to new opportunities.. it didn’t take long for everything to turn around though .. I was such a quiet kid at school in, and I lost confidence, pretty much straight away because of the class that I was in as well as a losing my self love and starting to close myself down for new opportunities. I was always an outsider and nobody wanted to be around me because of how quiet and boring I was, people would pick on me from my skin colour which was white and fare .. and people would demand me to speak, because I’ve been too quiet and they wanted to hear my voice… but every time I did try to speak or answered something in class when I wanted to.. people I look at me and respond back saying “ Omg I didn’t know she can speak” Or “ Omg she finally spoke “ and because that started pretty early into the school year, I started losing myself.. I started getting worried about classes, such as food, tech and woodwork and doing anything practical in my school subjects that I was doing.. With the friendship group that I was with at the time… I certainly didn’t feel like I belong there, and I was always left out, no one would’ve waited for me to get my things out of my locker or walk with me at all.. a lot of the time I was on my own and trying to figure out how to pass time ( this was something that I had to deal with for the last two years of schooling at Mount Erin), I remember there was year 7 netball tryouts, and I was never a fan of netball, but I decided to try out because all my friends were and that if I didn’t, I would end up being very alone recess and lunch.. hardly anyone knew me and nobody didn’t want to help me out when I was sitting alone at lunch or walking around the place, trying to distract myself.. trust me I was never the weird kid at school, but I was just very quiet and didn’t know how to speak to people because I lost my confidence that I had .. also , the stress of the buses at the end of the day especially in year 7 really took its toll with me.. almost every day, I would take one of the school buses home and as a year seven, we had to wait until the bell rings so the teachers dismissed us.. sometimes they would leave us in because of other kidd that were in the class being loud or rude to the teacher.. running in a very heavy schoolbag as well as the school shoes the school wants us to wear made it very difficult for me to run comfortably to the buses.. I wanted to get to the bus is as soon as I could so I could be able to get a seat and that I would have a comfortable ride home, knowing that I don’t have to sit with someone that was going to distract me or me having to stand up because nobody else wanted to let me sit down.. this didn’t happen very often, but every single day running to the bus really stressed me out and I’m sure they did as well to other students

Also, in year seven, I was away because of my mental health, and I never told any of my friends that because I didn’t trust my friends that I was hanging out with.. I didn’t have a proper best friend and I feel like if I said anything at the school end up, knowing about my mental health and my sickness that I had at the time.. that’s why I kept quiet… I tried to reach our teachers and the welfare group that was there at the time and they asked me if I was okay and I yes I did say that I was okay but clearly in my face I wasn’t because I was getting embarrassed and tearing up because the kids that were in my year level or even older at the time was staring at me, and it was definitely putting me off.. the school basically told me to shrug it off within me saying that I was okay and then just go back to class.. my mum was a very happy about it. I can tell you that right now

Halfway of year 8 I met some people that I started hanging out with throughout the whole time of me being at Mount Erin, I will not be mentioning names what so ever but these people made me feel blonde, and that I could be able to share my little personality I had ( although it was very cringy and weird.. I’m not going to regret my actions because that’s what made me happy at the time) those friend are the only reason why I stayed at school.. they were the only reason why I started going back to school and me starting to open up about my emotions… my mental health started to improve greatly, and that I was able to come to school almost every day

From year nine onwards, I started to enjoy school little bit more.. the best years of schooling was probably year 9.. I don’t know why that specific year but I felt like I was okay at school most of the time..

I don’t remember year 10 at all.. but year 11 and year 12 we’re pretty hard for me since we were going through a pandemic .. this isn’t the schools fault what so ever but I struggled big time with studying and I found myself praying and hoping that school would open up again.. my mental health did go haywire in year 11 and I felt like I was all over the place.. I never really told anybody this because I knew back then that I wasn’t okay..

In my seniors, a high school, the only reason why I stayed there was because of my friends and some of the teachers that I had at the time.. not going to mention anybody’s names, but they were the reasons why I stayed .. finally, in my senior years. People saw me as a human being and that they believed in me that I will do well..

I won’t say much else but the Best years of highschool were mainly the senior years.. the junior years were absolutely hell for me, especially if you’re a kindhearted person… to all the year sevens that arrive at our school each and every year before I left.. I feel very scared for them because I know that there would be a couple of kids that were the same as me that I’m going through the hardship of high school.. I cannot even believe that I survived all that..

I would definitely like to see the school improve with people with mental health with both students and teachers.. and also talk to these younger kids about their behaviour and bullying in a serious matter.. because I seriously do not think that it’s getting to a lot of kids… and if someone is getting bullied or someone experiencing some hardship.. the school should man up big time!

And for the kids that are causing chaos,. Give them strict punishments so they actually learn their lesson, I don’t want kids any more stressing about other kids as well as stressing out over homework because it is affecting so many kids lives .. And also keeping an minority of teachers that the kids actually look up to as role Models.. not once a try to stir the pot.. I know it’s hard to teach kids especially on hell lose they are now.. but it doesn’t seem like the school isn’t doing anything about it and it hasn’t for a very long time

Anyways, thank you for reading this review..

Look, it’s not a terrible school but the necessary facilities are not good (toilets), they’re always filfthy, obviously it’s not the schools fault but yeah. Majority of the teachers are good, but based on your classmates, the way teachers act towards the students change greatly. The current house system is okay I guess but it means that all students are mixed with other Year levels. The current classrooms, particularly is D block (old senior block), are hugely outdated, most classrooms without aircon which isn’t great, especially in summer, but yet again, what else could you ask for.

All in all, it isn’t a terrible school but if you do have other better options, i would say take them.