Toormina Highschool is in damage control, after a petition launched by an ex-student’s mother claimed the school mishandled the bullying of her child.
The petition made national headlines, and now the teachers and students are fighting back.
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i am sick and tired of the lies the news is exploiting about my school! 99% of the students their are well educated, well mannered and has never seen, or been part of a fight. every school has fights, even private schools have fighting and bullying and a lot of the time, children at private schools have more bullying because of how stuck up the students are. I am well educated. i feel completely safe at Toormina high school, the teachers are always there for us, to protect us and make sure we feel as safe and comfortable at school and i enjoy being their. You are portraying half of the story, and quite frankly i am sick and tired of you making a good school sound bad to make a story and money.
I am a student of Toormina High School and i was buullied at the end of term 2. the school talked to me and the girls that was doing the bullying,and i was told that the promble had been resolved ! but it wasn’t and the bullying kept going . i have now missed most of last term and i had to go to the doctor and was told i have depression and anxcity and i am on medication I saw the report on the NBN news tongiht and what i found interesting that some of the girls are wearing bages,so they are school captain or vice caption . please toormina you do have bullies at the school as i also am a victem … and im still not at school !
I am a CONCERNED grandparent.
The principal in the interview stated that people are lying and are doing it for personal gain.
What personal gain can be gained by concerned parents, caring enough to stand up to the injustice of their child being BULLIED.
I believe that the principal is taking the petition Against Bullying as an attack against the schools reputation. I see it as a stand against bullying & a vehicle for change.
Well said Robert Paterson!
funny how the students that spoke up for the school are actually the children of the teachers that teach at toormina high???
As a former student of Toormina High I too am sick of the slander that goes with the name “Toormina High”. It would seem that because the school has many students in a low socio-economic group that the school must therefore be sub-standard.
However, it is often the case that the above-mentioned students are not truly the cause of the problems (they either don’t bother attending, or are there genuinely trying to better themselves), but the teachers’, laywers’, doctors’ etc children and therefore bullying is given the title of “a difference in personalities” becaue good middle-class children couldn’t possibly bully. It is the chronically bullied child who becomes the instigator when they finally retalliate.
I firmly believe the teachers, and other on-site staff, have a responsibility to notice, RECOGNISE, and respond to bullying. However, in truth, this rarely happens; how is a teachers’ child disciplined for bullying? Answer: They aren’t!
Also, as an aside. Did anyone else notice the student who claims that “99% of the students their are well educated”…? Perhaps she’s one of the 1% who could use a spelling/grammar lesson.
I’m an adult struggling with this same issue. My husband’s boss is a terrible bully. He’s been the cause of two other families falling apart over the abuse he deals out at work. He feels necessary to degrade and constantly threaten employees. My husband used to be a kind, gentle person. Now, he is lethargic and uncaring, even towards those he loves. Everyone at home is miserable and depressed. Bullying at any age is wrong. This is a very concerning issue for our government, as their laws are protecting bullies from reprimands. Once they learn that they can get away with anything, the abuse escalates. Its high time this be stopped not just at Toormina High but ALL ACROSS AUSTRALIA.
Jenny
I think the same thing but no matter what any one says toormina high school is not going to do anything about it because from there point of view they say there is no bullying at the school which is wrong !!
This principal has her head buried in the sand. She is frightened she will be demoted or dismissed. By acting agressively she is not in control. Her staff obviously have no respect for students either, this could be from her directives to her staff. This school has to have a total audit of its teaching staff and working with children cards thoroughly checked for dismeanours. I am a parent of a bullied student in Western Australia and my sons school could not do enough for my son and my husband and myself. The school found out my son was being bullied and handled with utmost care.
Thats right but i still dont think there going to do anything about it because Toormina High School thinks there is no bullying which is incorect and they need to do something about it before it goes to far and someone gets badly hurt …
I used to go to Toormina High and whatever they’re saying to defend it is pretty much wrong. YES there is a lot of bullying there, there’s a lot of fights (they happened quite often), sometimes violence, and people who are downright mean. It’s the place where people from low economic background go, so of course it’s not the best school in Australia. I didn’t have a very good time there, university is so much better but I guess that’s to be expected from any school.
This being said, the teachers are generally good, some are great. It’s not their fault, as weird as this sounds, it’s the students. There are people there from very bad families, and unfortunate backgrounds. These are people who don’t know anything else but where they’ve grown up, and in the 7th and 8th grades, they’re not always pleasant. It gets much better as people get older.
The teachers are good, don’t blame them for anything. Obviously the principal doesn’t want to have defamation against the school, but there is bullying there, denying it would be stupid. It’s everywhere, it’s at all the private schools as well. Not much different to any other school in Coffs really, CCS and Bishop are the worst. It’s very hard to stop bullying when it’s 13-15 year old boys/girls who have no perspective, they’re not really going to listen anyway.
Plus the school isn’t doing a good job the roof
Was being construct and now somehow we will have cancer in about 30-40 years
I don’t wanna die this young it’s the schools
Fault.
Also someone has died recently
i am a ex student of toormina high and i was bullied… not so much in school grounds but it was by girls at toormina high… i got really bad depresion and anxitiy that i couldnt go to school i was scared… i ended up with the police at my door threatening me with court because i was to scared to go to school… i felt like everyone was talking behind my back and something was going to happen.. i didnt complete my year 9 because of this and i left at the start of my year 10.. i now work full time and am still scared of these girls today… it is not right and something should be done… i went to the police about this so many times and they didnt do anything… its not on the police say they want to stop it.. they can start by helping people that are getting bullied/bashed over nothing…