School Summary
Coleridge Community College
Girls: 256
Total Pupils: 535
Opened: 01-04-2011
Head of Coleridge: Richard Shaw
Coleridge Community College
Radegund Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB1 3RJ
Telephone: 01223712300
Website: https://www.coleridgecc.org.uk/
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reviews: [{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"5 months ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"I currently visit this school as a student and the things I see are appalling, the teachers time and time again pick favourites and do what they can to make them look amazing while disregarding the rest of the class, unless they want to give a warning, especially special needs students, they are the most picked upon, the only nice treatment they get is to cool-down for 5 minutes but many teachers still refuse to let them go, this school needs an Ofsted review please.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"I currently visit this school as a student and the things I see are appalling, the teachers time and time again pick favourites and do what they can to make them look amazing while disregarding the rest of the class, unless they want to give a warning, especially special needs students, they are the most picked upon, the only nice treatment they get is to cool-down for 5 minutes but many teachers still refuse to let them go, this school needs an Ofsted review please.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Zach","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/103048980427361322598\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/ALV-UjV9tveXYMXyoLJX7ixawbf2AK1qYzij07aZRFvv3gw9ow=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2023-04-05T15:46:58Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"As someone who has been a student here for 4 years, i can definitely say this is one of the worst schools in the country. The teachers will try and get you in detention \/ reflection for the smallest reasons and use the reflection room as a place to get rid of difficult students, even though there are other students who act the same and will not be punished. Some teachers clearly favour specific students and will openly make rude comments towards others. Students with special needs are not given enough help. The teachers will do next to nothing when it comes to racism or bullying. They claim to take our issues seriously but they choose to ignore them in order to protect the reputation of the school. The way lessons and homework are planned out, most students will forget everything we learnt and therefore proving these 'methods' useless. When telling teachers about this they just shrug their shoulders and move on.\nIf coleridge leave the United Learning trust, the school may finally be good again.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"As someone who has been a student here for 4 years, i can definitely say this is one of the worst schools in the country. The teachers will try and get you in detention \/ reflection for the smallest reasons and use the reflection room as a place to get rid of difficult students, even though there are other students who act the same and will not be punished. Some teachers clearly favour specific students and will openly make rude comments towards others. Students with special needs are not given enough help. The teachers will do next to nothing when it comes to racism or bullying. They claim to take our issues seriously but they choose to ignore them in order to protect the reputation of the school. The way lessons and homework are planned out, most students will forget everything we learnt and therefore proving these 'methods' useless. When telling teachers about this they just shrug their shoulders and move on.\nIf coleridge leave the United Learning trust, the school may finally be good again.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Mih Ahgf","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/117415656422092722750\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/ACg8ocIp9f0N5TUbAV3WXBhqnCUewat4pEP8J4_A_K8yts7-=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2022-07-29T16:05:18Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"Please please do not send your children here. For the sake of their mental health and well being. The school used to be good but when united learning became part of the institution, it went extremely downhill.\nIt is extremely clear to many of the students here that this school cares more about rules than the mental health of its students.\nI have sat in classrooms where people have had literal anxiety and panic attacks and the teachers have done nothing. I have experienced my peers and myself feel as if our happiness and well being has been completely taken away from us due to the school's horrific amount of pressure they put on us.\n\nI have struggled with severe mental health issues since the beginning of January 2021 and the school have only made it worse, invalidated it and broken trust with me. Not only have I had this experience but many others have as well. They create this persona, giving the impression that they care, when in reality, they do not. All they care about is how the school looks.\n\nStudents were happier, getting better grades and behaving much better before united learning and the new leadership team. Now, me and other peers have had to revise and re learn stuff profusely at home because of the terrible organisation and teaching. (This is not directly the teacher's issues but the leadership teams).\n\nWe are not learning. We are only learning to be quiet and obey the borderline dictatorship mannerisms of this school.\nIt is not fair on us. Not fair on our future which is being ruined by this school.\n\nThey strip us of our personality and sense of expression with ridiculous uniform rules that benefit no one but the school's pathetic ego.\n\nYear 11s are struggling to find time to actually revise due to the ridiculous 2 hour a night homework schedule which often finds itself to be 3 hours. Even younger years are struggling - It has become a norm to see new year 7 and 8s being so scared of the dumb punishments for perhaps, losing a pen, that they are crying and constantly anxious.\nSo please, if you care about your children - DO NOT send them here.\nI could write so much more but I do not have the time so there you go.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"Please please do not send your children here. For the sake of their mental health and well being. The school used to be good but when united learning became part of the institution, it went extremely downhill.\nIt is extremely clear to many of the students here that this school cares more about rules than the mental health of its students.\nI have sat in classrooms where people have had literal anxiety and panic attacks and the teachers have done nothing. I have experienced my peers and myself feel as if our happiness and well being has been completely taken away from us due to the school's horrific amount of pressure they put on us.\n\nI have struggled with severe mental health issues since the beginning of January 2021 and the school have only made it worse, invalidated it and broken trust with me. Not only have I had this experience but many others have as well. They create this persona, giving the impression that they care, when in reality, they do not. All they care about is how the school looks.\n\nStudents were happier, getting better grades and behaving much better before united learning and the new leadership team. Now, me and other peers have had to revise and re learn stuff profusely at home because of the terrible organisation and teaching. (This is not directly the teacher's issues but the leadership teams).\n\nWe are not learning. We are only learning to be quiet and obey the borderline dictatorship mannerisms of this school.\nIt is not fair on us. Not fair on our future which is being ruined by this school.\n\nThey strip us of our personality and sense of expression with ridiculous uniform rules that benefit no one but the school's pathetic ego.\n\nYear 11s are struggling to find time to actually revise due to the ridiculous 2 hour a night homework schedule which often finds itself to be 3 hours. Even younger years are struggling - It has become a norm to see new year 7 and 8s being so scared of the dumb punishments for perhaps, losing a pen, that they are crying and constantly anxious.\nSo please, if you care about your children - DO NOT send them here.\nI could write so much more but I do not have the time so there you go.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"mollyelizanne","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/116923388471462308621\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/ALV-UjW5X2Lk6C9vIW1JtP1kPXaa6M9zCfy-9OR6ghNuUSU7S_c=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2021-10-12T16:39:38Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"I went to the school myself, I can safely say sending your kids to a concentration camp in China would make your kids happier. Teachers don't care anymore, they would rather send students to reflection where they spend that day and the next day in a room isolated with no lunch or break time, and not allowed to go back to class, teachers do not bring your work to you while you're in there, you're just left to stare at a blank wall for 8 hours.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"I went to the school myself, I can safely say sending your kids to a concentration camp in China would make your kids happier. Teachers don't care anymore, they would rather send students to reflection where they spend that day and the next day in a room isolated with no lunch or break time, and not allowed to go back to class, teachers do not bring your work to you while you're in there, you're just left to stare at a blank wall for 8 hours.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"joe moyce","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/105162435433251197051\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/ALV-UjWm-VAHTp5cYnqJUHAjZZ4l_RIS8wx4ieym7fkoOUtP_RQ=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2021-12-19T09:48:12Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"As a student starting their GSCEs and Year 10 this year, I've seen this school at its highs and lows for 3 years. It's at the point to where the school will rather care about the publics reputation and discipline then students wellbeing and education. This school depends on its rules and to be seen as a near perfect school. We are required to almost always be in silence, if not we have to sit in an isolated room for 7 50mins periods, which means we lose vital knowledge towards final exams.\n\nSo many students and teachers have left due to the stress of the current environment of the place to the point of that there's hardly any supply teachers left which means that we as students are lacking in certain topics of education, especially for us who are in gsce years, which adds a level of stress to both sides as the students have to rush certain topics to stay on track via a video or a simple questionnaire, and then it leads to certain students getting behind because some people do not learn through that.\nI do want to say however that the problem does not lie on the teachers. The problem mainly lies on the leadership team, United Learning and the lack of communication between them.\n\nI joined in Mid 2018, I was excited to come here as I was promised that it would be better than my previous school. For the past 3 years, I've had little to no support for my illnesses from most of staff members, I've been made out to be dramatic, that I'm a liar, that I was doing it for attention and I'm overexaggerating it to the point where I've had to make numerous complaints about the treatment I've had from certain staff, and yet I've never seen any change from them. I've gotten to the point where I dont even want to come to this place because of this environment that they caused and the way that me and my other peers have been talked down to.\n\nI've seen new students crying over the rules and the pressure the school gives. I, along with other students have been called a disappointment to the school over the wrong pairs of shoes without considering why we were and being forced to wear shoes that cause me discomfort and pain.\n\nI don't feel proud to be in Coleridge anymore, I feel embarrassed to be around this environment. They never listen to any complaints, students or parents and can be very defensive about these rules. My wellbeing has been so bad with the constant changes to expectations and constantly being pressurized by staff, as I'm sure many of my other classmates have felt.\n\nI sincerely advise you to not bring your kids here for your children's wellbeing and education. I have my honest sympathy to new students of this school who will have to deal with the furthermore stricter changes to the rules.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"As a student starting their GSCEs and Year 10 this year, I've seen this school at its highs and lows for 3 years. It's at the point to where the school will rather care about the publics reputation and discipline then students wellbeing and education. This school depends on its rules and to be seen as a near perfect school. We are required to almost always be in silence, if not we have to sit in an isolated room for 7 50mins periods, which means we lose vital knowledge towards final exams.\n\nSo many students and teachers have left due to the stress of the current environment of the place to the point of that there's hardly any supply teachers left which means that we as students are lacking in certain topics of education, especially for us who are in gsce years, which adds a level of stress to both sides as the students have to rush certain topics to stay on track via a video or a simple questionnaire, and then it leads to certain students getting behind because some people do not learn through that.\nI do want to say however that the problem does not lie on the teachers. The problem mainly lies on the leadership team, United Learning and the lack of communication between them.\n\nI joined in Mid 2018, I was excited to come here as I was promised that it would be better than my previous school. For the past 3 years, I've had little to no support for my illnesses from most of staff members, I've been made out to be dramatic, that I'm a liar, that I was doing it for attention and I'm overexaggerating it to the point where I've had to make numerous complaints about the treatment I've had from certain staff, and yet I've never seen any change from them. I've gotten to the point where I dont even want to come to this place because of this environment that they caused and the way that me and my other peers have been talked down to.\n\nI've seen new students crying over the rules and the pressure the school gives. I, along with other students have been called a disappointment to the school over the wrong pairs of shoes without considering why we were and being forced to wear shoes that cause me discomfort and pain.\n\nI don't feel proud to be in Coleridge anymore, I feel embarrassed to be around this environment. They never listen to any complaints, students or parents and can be very defensive about these rules. My wellbeing has been so bad with the constant changes to expectations and constantly being pressurized by staff, as I'm sure many of my other classmates have felt.\n\nI sincerely advise you to not bring your kids here for your children's wellbeing and education. I have my honest sympathy to new students of this school who will have to deal with the furthermore stricter changes to the rules.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"ghostly_boo","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/100967669633068650297\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/ALV-UjVWswcHzBr7D94PfnTM1VhDeWCsJWmEIX1Dxc1AVk0cqoY=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2021-10-11T22:47:35Z"}]
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reviews: [{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"5 months ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"I currently visit this school as a student and the things I see are appalling, the teachers time and time again pick favourites and do what they can to make them look amazing while disregarding the rest of the class, unless they want to give a warning, especially special needs students, they are the most picked upon, the only nice treatment they get is to cool-down for 5 minutes but many teachers still refuse to let them go, this school needs an Ofsted review please.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"I currently visit this school as a student and the things I see are appalling, the teachers time and time again pick favourites and do what they can to make them look amazing while disregarding the rest of the class, unless they want to give a warning, especially special needs students, they are the most picked upon, the only nice treatment they get is to cool-down for 5 minutes but many teachers still refuse to let them go, this school needs an Ofsted review please.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Zach","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/103048980427361322598\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/ALV-UjV9tveXYMXyoLJX7ixawbf2AK1qYzij07aZRFvv3gw9ow=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2023-04-05T15:46:58Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"As someone who has been a student here for 4 years, i can definitely say this is one of the worst schools in the country. The teachers will try and get you in detention \/ reflection for the smallest reasons and use the reflection room as a place to get rid of difficult students, even though there are other students who act the same and will not be punished. Some teachers clearly favour specific students and will openly make rude comments towards others. Students with special needs are not given enough help. The teachers will do next to nothing when it comes to racism or bullying. They claim to take our issues seriously but they choose to ignore them in order to protect the reputation of the school. The way lessons and homework are planned out, most students will forget everything we learnt and therefore proving these 'methods' useless. When telling teachers about this they just shrug their shoulders and move on.\nIf coleridge leave the United Learning trust, the school may finally be good again.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"As someone who has been a student here for 4 years, i can definitely say this is one of the worst schools in the country. The teachers will try and get you in detention \/ reflection for the smallest reasons and use the reflection room as a place to get rid of difficult students, even though there are other students who act the same and will not be punished. Some teachers clearly favour specific students and will openly make rude comments towards others. Students with special needs are not given enough help. The teachers will do next to nothing when it comes to racism or bullying. They claim to take our issues seriously but they choose to ignore them in order to protect the reputation of the school. The way lessons and homework are planned out, most students will forget everything we learnt and therefore proving these 'methods' useless. When telling teachers about this they just shrug their shoulders and move on.\nIf coleridge leave the United Learning trust, the school may finally be good again.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Mih Ahgf","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/117415656422092722750\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/ACg8ocIp9f0N5TUbAV3WXBhqnCUewat4pEP8J4_A_K8yts7-=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2022-07-29T16:05:18Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"Please please do not send your children here. For the sake of their mental health and well being. The school used to be good but when united learning became part of the institution, it went extremely downhill.\nIt is extremely clear to many of the students here that this school cares more about rules than the mental health of its students.\nI have sat in classrooms where people have had literal anxiety and panic attacks and the teachers have done nothing. I have experienced my peers and myself feel as if our happiness and well being has been completely taken away from us due to the school's horrific amount of pressure they put on us.\n\nI have struggled with severe mental health issues since the beginning of January 2021 and the school have only made it worse, invalidated it and broken trust with me. Not only have I had this experience but many others have as well. They create this persona, giving the impression that they care, when in reality, they do not. All they care about is how the school looks.\n\nStudents were happier, getting better grades and behaving much better before united learning and the new leadership team. Now, me and other peers have had to revise and re learn stuff profusely at home because of the terrible organisation and teaching. (This is not directly the teacher's issues but the leadership teams).\n\nWe are not learning. We are only learning to be quiet and obey the borderline dictatorship mannerisms of this school.\nIt is not fair on us. Not fair on our future which is being ruined by this school.\n\nThey strip us of our personality and sense of expression with ridiculous uniform rules that benefit no one but the school's pathetic ego.\n\nYear 11s are struggling to find time to actually revise due to the ridiculous 2 hour a night homework schedule which often finds itself to be 3 hours. Even younger years are struggling - It has become a norm to see new year 7 and 8s being so scared of the dumb punishments for perhaps, losing a pen, that they are crying and constantly anxious.\nSo please, if you care about your children - DO NOT send them here.\nI could write so much more but I do not have the time so there you go.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"Please please do not send your children here. For the sake of their mental health and well being. The school used to be good but when united learning became part of the institution, it went extremely downhill.\nIt is extremely clear to many of the students here that this school cares more about rules than the mental health of its students.\nI have sat in classrooms where people have had literal anxiety and panic attacks and the teachers have done nothing. I have experienced my peers and myself feel as if our happiness and well being has been completely taken away from us due to the school's horrific amount of pressure they put on us.\n\nI have struggled with severe mental health issues since the beginning of January 2021 and the school have only made it worse, invalidated it and broken trust with me. Not only have I had this experience but many others have as well. They create this persona, giving the impression that they care, when in reality, they do not. All they care about is how the school looks.\n\nStudents were happier, getting better grades and behaving much better before united learning and the new leadership team. Now, me and other peers have had to revise and re learn stuff profusely at home because of the terrible organisation and teaching. (This is not directly the teacher's issues but the leadership teams).\n\nWe are not learning. We are only learning to be quiet and obey the borderline dictatorship mannerisms of this school.\nIt is not fair on us. Not fair on our future which is being ruined by this school.\n\nThey strip us of our personality and sense of expression with ridiculous uniform rules that benefit no one but the school's pathetic ego.\n\nYear 11s are struggling to find time to actually revise due to the ridiculous 2 hour a night homework schedule which often finds itself to be 3 hours. Even younger years are struggling - It has become a norm to see new year 7 and 8s being so scared of the dumb punishments for perhaps, losing a pen, that they are crying and constantly anxious.\nSo please, if you care about your children - DO NOT send them here.\nI could write so much more but I do not have the time so there you go.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"mollyelizanne","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/116923388471462308621\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/ALV-UjW5X2Lk6C9vIW1JtP1kPXaa6M9zCfy-9OR6ghNuUSU7S_c=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2021-10-12T16:39:38Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"I went to the school myself, I can safely say sending your kids to a concentration camp in China would make your kids happier. Teachers don't care anymore, they would rather send students to reflection where they spend that day and the next day in a room isolated with no lunch or break time, and not allowed to go back to class, teachers do not bring your work to you while you're in there, you're just left to stare at a blank wall for 8 hours.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"I went to the school myself, I can safely say sending your kids to a concentration camp in China would make your kids happier. Teachers don't care anymore, they would rather send students to reflection where they spend that day and the next day in a room isolated with no lunch or break time, and not allowed to go back to class, teachers do not bring your work to you while you're in there, you're just left to stare at a blank wall for 8 hours.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"joe moyce","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/105162435433251197051\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/ALV-UjWm-VAHTp5cYnqJUHAjZZ4l_RIS8wx4ieym7fkoOUtP_RQ=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2021-12-19T09:48:12Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"As a student starting their GSCEs and Year 10 this year, I've seen this school at its highs and lows for 3 years. It's at the point to where the school will rather care about the publics reputation and discipline then students wellbeing and education. This school depends on its rules and to be seen as a near perfect school. We are required to almost always be in silence, if not we have to sit in an isolated room for 7 50mins periods, which means we lose vital knowledge towards final exams.\n\nSo many students and teachers have left due to the stress of the current environment of the place to the point of that there's hardly any supply teachers left which means that we as students are lacking in certain topics of education, especially for us who are in gsce years, which adds a level of stress to both sides as the students have to rush certain topics to stay on track via a video or a simple questionnaire, and then it leads to certain students getting behind because some people do not learn through that.\nI do want to say however that the problem does not lie on the teachers. The problem mainly lies on the leadership team, United Learning and the lack of communication between them.\n\nI joined in Mid 2018, I was excited to come here as I was promised that it would be better than my previous school. For the past 3 years, I've had little to no support for my illnesses from most of staff members, I've been made out to be dramatic, that I'm a liar, that I was doing it for attention and I'm overexaggerating it to the point where I've had to make numerous complaints about the treatment I've had from certain staff, and yet I've never seen any change from them. I've gotten to the point where I dont even want to come to this place because of this environment that they caused and the way that me and my other peers have been talked down to.\n\nI've seen new students crying over the rules and the pressure the school gives. I, along with other students have been called a disappointment to the school over the wrong pairs of shoes without considering why we were and being forced to wear shoes that cause me discomfort and pain.\n\nI don't feel proud to be in Coleridge anymore, I feel embarrassed to be around this environment. They never listen to any complaints, students or parents and can be very defensive about these rules. My wellbeing has been so bad with the constant changes to expectations and constantly being pressurized by staff, as I'm sure many of my other classmates have felt.\n\nI sincerely advise you to not bring your kids here for your children's wellbeing and education. I have my honest sympathy to new students of this school who will have to deal with the furthermore stricter changes to the rules.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"As a student starting their GSCEs and Year 10 this year, I've seen this school at its highs and lows for 3 years. It's at the point to where the school will rather care about the publics reputation and discipline then students wellbeing and education. This school depends on its rules and to be seen as a near perfect school. We are required to almost always be in silence, if not we have to sit in an isolated room for 7 50mins periods, which means we lose vital knowledge towards final exams.\n\nSo many students and teachers have left due to the stress of the current environment of the place to the point of that there's hardly any supply teachers left which means that we as students are lacking in certain topics of education, especially for us who are in gsce years, which adds a level of stress to both sides as the students have to rush certain topics to stay on track via a video or a simple questionnaire, and then it leads to certain students getting behind because some people do not learn through that.\nI do want to say however that the problem does not lie on the teachers. The problem mainly lies on the leadership team, United Learning and the lack of communication between them.\n\nI joined in Mid 2018, I was excited to come here as I was promised that it would be better than my previous school. For the past 3 years, I've had little to no support for my illnesses from most of staff members, I've been made out to be dramatic, that I'm a liar, that I was doing it for attention and I'm overexaggerating it to the point where I've had to make numerous complaints about the treatment I've had from certain staff, and yet I've never seen any change from them. I've gotten to the point where I dont even want to come to this place because of this environment that they caused and the way that me and my other peers have been talked down to.\n\nI've seen new students crying over the rules and the pressure the school gives. I, along with other students have been called a disappointment to the school over the wrong pairs of shoes without considering why we were and being forced to wear shoes that cause me discomfort and pain.\n\nI don't feel proud to be in Coleridge anymore, I feel embarrassed to be around this environment. They never listen to any complaints, students or parents and can be very defensive about these rules. My wellbeing has been so bad with the constant changes to expectations and constantly being pressurized by staff, as I'm sure many of my other classmates have felt.\n\nI sincerely advise you to not bring your kids here for your children's wellbeing and education. I have my honest sympathy to new students of this school who will have to deal with the furthermore stricter changes to the rules.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"ghostly_boo","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/100967669633068650297\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/ALV-UjVWswcHzBr7D94PfnTM1VhDeWCsJWmEIX1Dxc1AVk0cqoY=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2021-10-11T22:47:35Z"}]