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i just feel compelled to put a review just because i used to go here...
the school is relatively ok just that was a scumbag vice principal on my last year, and theres the gym teacher thats more biased than donald trump, which is kindof crazy...
overall the school activities are fun teachers are nice, but the enviroment is dirty, mostly the washrooms, like it was a trend to throw toilet paper in the washroom walls in 2018... but otherwise, it is a good school for french learning, but just dont expect a nice mme k gym teacher
the school is relatively ok just that was a scumbag vice principal on my last year, and theres the gym teacher thats more biased than donald trump, which is kindof crazy...
overall the school activities are fun teachers are nice, but the enviroment is dirty, mostly the washrooms, like it was a trend to throw toilet paper in the washroom walls in 2018... but otherwise, it is a good school for french learning, but just dont expect a nice mme k gym teacher
Sir Wilfrid Laurier Public School offers a nurturing environment and a strong academic program. Teachers are dedicated, and the facilities are well-maintained. Great choice for quality education. To join the school's WeChat group, add me: ai11002244.
this is an amazing school with most of the teachers supportive some arent but mostly all of them are very nice overall it a very good school you should deffinetly send your kids there its amazing and you learn alot and the kids arent to misbehaving.
This school is good teacher wise with great supporting teachers but a few more rude then the others. The only reason why I started to dislike the school is after the new principal came. The previous year a new vice principal came and she was a ok vice, she did her job and knew how to work. But the principal was ok on the outside but she was misbehaving with the employees and being a bit more rude compared to our old principal.
this school is the reason towards why i had attempted to off myself.
that being said, i am not saying this because i hate school in general. no, i enjoy learning of new subjects, and naturally, school is a wondrous way to educate oneself. however, this school's facet of receptive, and educational service for students is as bad as the aftermath of catastrophe, and had remained unchanged for seven years.
the office staff do not negotiate well; it takes multitudinous amounts of your time, effort, and attempts in order to receive change. it is quite evident as to why some things cannot be changed; however, they would not even bother fixing something as minor, yet as validly rightful as covid seating arrangements until someone willingly shed blood, sweat, and tears.
in addition, the new vice principal has horrific time-management skill issues. she states that she "prioritised the older grades," managing when each class gets to do music with the lovely music teacher at a time, whereas my class still gets the most unorganised timetable out of our peers of other grades, as well as classes. she squeezed two subjects in an hour period, and ended up giving us measle minutes of another art-subject with said music teacher right after music, not enough to satisfy even thirty minutes of this one aspect each week. not only does this not make sense, it does not go with her narrative of prioritising the older students first, taking away our supposed art-subject period time throughout the entire school year. we potentially have to replace the entire period with the alternative, other period as well; which in combination, is extremely inconvenient, and damaging in our prospecting of careers.
when we --- seven students collectively as consensus for our class --- tried to confront her, she stated the exact way she managed the schedules, then saying in such an underlying standoffish tone, that "your idea would not work in the real world!" instead of enumerating actual, specific reasoning.
there are many other horrific instances of deceit, as she called someone a childish title with equally as childish reasoning, in front of many witnesses. yet, when the student wrongfully called someone an immature title, she confronted them asking why, the classmate saying the exact reasoning she said as witty response from influence. cornered, she would not admit her faults to claim responsibility; she had claimed that they had misheard, and that she did not call them this disrespectful nickname, but some strange name nobody names their child born past the twenty-first century from the nineties. since she had authority over the students, my classmate thence acquiesced, and left.
moreover, another anecdote includes the former, previous year, where the third graders were using inappropriate hand gestures from the window, yet the lunch monitors blamed the situation on my entire class, adding on the reasonability, and responsibility of being the mature kids. they were stating as if we were responsible for monitoring the younger children's actions; sans conscience. hence, the lack of critical judgement from the staff is astounding.
one lazy, monotone teacher did not even mark our tests, which is absolutely ridiculous. therefore, they had to resort to a few of my classmates marking it, which is not even their jobs. it even goes towards a common issue within schools --- unconcious (?), yet extremely prominent, and evident bias within my class this year. furthermore, one teacher marks tests way too loosely, making me question if educators from other schools do the selfsame genre of academic evaluation.
in brief, this school sucks because of the staff, excluding the custodians. don't come here if you have a choice, only come if you have no school to resort to in french immersion within your proximity.
that being said, i am not saying this because i hate school in general. no, i enjoy learning of new subjects, and naturally, school is a wondrous way to educate oneself. however, this school's facet of receptive, and educational service for students is as bad as the aftermath of catastrophe, and had remained unchanged for seven years.
the office staff do not negotiate well; it takes multitudinous amounts of your time, effort, and attempts in order to receive change. it is quite evident as to why some things cannot be changed; however, they would not even bother fixing something as minor, yet as validly rightful as covid seating arrangements until someone willingly shed blood, sweat, and tears.
in addition, the new vice principal has horrific time-management skill issues. she states that she "prioritised the older grades," managing when each class gets to do music with the lovely music teacher at a time, whereas my class still gets the most unorganised timetable out of our peers of other grades, as well as classes. she squeezed two subjects in an hour period, and ended up giving us measle minutes of another art-subject with said music teacher right after music, not enough to satisfy even thirty minutes of this one aspect each week. not only does this not make sense, it does not go with her narrative of prioritising the older students first, taking away our supposed art-subject period time throughout the entire school year. we potentially have to replace the entire period with the alternative, other period as well; which in combination, is extremely inconvenient, and damaging in our prospecting of careers.
when we --- seven students collectively as consensus for our class --- tried to confront her, she stated the exact way she managed the schedules, then saying in such an underlying standoffish tone, that "your idea would not work in the real world!" instead of enumerating actual, specific reasoning.
there are many other horrific instances of deceit, as she called someone a childish title with equally as childish reasoning, in front of many witnesses. yet, when the student wrongfully called someone an immature title, she confronted them asking why, the classmate saying the exact reasoning she said as witty response from influence. cornered, she would not admit her faults to claim responsibility; she had claimed that they had misheard, and that she did not call them this disrespectful nickname, but some strange name nobody names their child born past the twenty-first century from the nineties. since she had authority over the students, my classmate thence acquiesced, and left.
moreover, another anecdote includes the former, previous year, where the third graders were using inappropriate hand gestures from the window, yet the lunch monitors blamed the situation on my entire class, adding on the reasonability, and responsibility of being the mature kids. they were stating as if we were responsible for monitoring the younger children's actions; sans conscience. hence, the lack of critical judgement from the staff is astounding.
one lazy, monotone teacher did not even mark our tests, which is absolutely ridiculous. therefore, they had to resort to a few of my classmates marking it, which is not even their jobs. it even goes towards a common issue within schools --- unconcious (?), yet extremely prominent, and evident bias within my class this year. furthermore, one teacher marks tests way too loosely, making me question if educators from other schools do the selfsame genre of academic evaluation.
in brief, this school sucks because of the staff, excluding the custodians. don't come here if you have a choice, only come if you have no school to resort to in french immersion within your proximity.
If there was a 0-star rating I would rate that 0 stars. This school's bathrooms are just relatively filthy. No one flushes the toilets in the boy's bathroom. This school is biased toward specific grades. Like they always call grade 5's last for almost everything. There is no air conditioning and we have to use the fan to cool down. Our teacher provided us with perfectly used windows 7 computers that were supposed to be in the garbage. Yet the principal said we couldn't "take care of it". They provide the other grades' field trips but don't give specific grade field trips including grade 5. The grade 4's went on two field trips but the grade 5's got 0. I hope this school changes the bias toward specific grades. The water in the bathroom is really filthy and I don't even think the soap cleanses your hands. I hope this school will really read what I have said and possibly change this. There is also too much bullying. Im sorry for the kids who had to go to this school.
From a former grade 5 student.
From a former grade 5 student.
I've been in this school for several years and I've got to say, it's not getting any better after the removal of the yrdsb teacher of the year. After that event, the school has gone through several changes in vice principals and principals. The classrooms are fairly big and are a great learning environment with many great teacher there to support you. However, there are a few teachers that can be very lazy. In one case, I had a teacher who made us do assignments that we're never even marked. The few times that our tests were marked were by a few students in my class that marked it. There are also a few teachers that don't treat us fairly as I've had many encounters with cases of favoritism shown to a few specific students in certain issues. There are also a lot of false assumptions made and certain people are very quick to judge before they know what's happening. One occasion was on track and field day which happened not too long ago. We were cheering on the grade 4's running the 100 meter as it was their first time ever participating in track. We were shouting out words of encouragement like "let's gooo" , "keep going!" and "you got this" just to name a few and one of the staff at the school called us out thinking we were dissing the students which we were clearly not. When it came to our grade, we were cheering on our friends by calling them the names that they are fine with us calling them in our friend group. After that another one of the staff had walked over and confronted us and told us "no more negative comments" which had us baffled. These are just a few cases to give you a better understanding of the school and what your children may experience being here. Overall this school used to be good but I'm not sure what happened to it.
