H.P.S HEAD IS "ACTING LIKE A BAD BOND VILLIAN"*

HOLLAND PARK SCHOOL: "TEACHERS ARE WALKING ON EGGSHELLS ALL THE TIME"*
Every School Headmaster gets accused of having a superiority complex at one time, usually by Parents who object to the School taking action because their child has set light to the main hall curtains and a girls pigtails again or by some Pupils who had received punishment by the lucky to be alive Headmaster who 'didnt get the joke' of having a flammable liquid bloated tampon shoved up his cars exhaust pipe, but in the case of Holland Park School the scare stories are not coming from the Pupils (the mans actions have been so extreme in the past that Im not mentioning names here just in case of a one in a billion chance that he should ever read this).
 UNFAIR ALLOCATIONS
Let me give you an example of the Heads idea of good Schooling methods, two dance students were allowed to go on a paid trip to China. All very well and good you say, 'hands across the Ocean and all that' and in that context who would disagree?
But, in contrast to this, whole classes of children were denied the simple, traditional and essential learning activity of a basic field trip because the School couldnt afford to send any of them on one (essential today when some young (and adult) people dont even know what a Cow looks like, or that Insects come in life forms other than that of the common House Fly or Cockroach).
THE NEW 'LIBRARY'
I cant say anything about the School without mentioning the new 'Library', what a marvelous monument to the modern business led arrogant world of waste that governs many of the serious descisions that are being made today Globally (in that respect the Head is on the ball, no doubt), anyway, a lot of money has obviously been spent on the new look Library. With its lovely carpets, lighting and comfortable furniture it has all the trappings of a Hilton V.I.P waiting area no less, the Library even has nice indoor potted plants placed outside its entrance to set the whole mood off.
The only thing that is missing though, IS BOOKS! You have never seen such a poorly stocked Library in your life, the room harldy even deserves the title of Library anymore it has so little, I seriously doubt that the number of new books ordered during the re-fit (if at all) goes higher than lower double numbers.
"THE NEW BUILDING IS HORRIBLE"**  
The once happy School is reeling under the regime imposed on Pupils and staff alike, take the recent problems with the Snow for example, despite the conditions being dangerous and very cold, the female Pupils were still forced to wear the same gripless, flat soled flimsy, thin slip on shoes that they wear in mid Summer, the Pupils are not allowed to deviate from their set clothing or footwear whatever the weather conditions.
The entrances had not been Salted nor had the snow and ice been shovelled away, yet the Teachers still gave urgent verbal orders for Pupils to rush as fast as possible along pavements thats snow had been trampled down to ice with hundreds of flat soled feet, so that it soon became so slippery that kids had fallen, some had to take time off School due to their injuries caused then.
ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
During the Borstal like jog the children are daily forced to take as they make their way along Airlie Gdns, and also as they leave School at the end of the day, Teachers and 'Security people' are constantly buzzing hurridly about round the entrances and roads watching them, relaying normal "Pupils entering the School now, I repeat..." activity into walkie talkies to eachother, others who are no doubt running around while doing equally unneeded tasks, tasks that are more suited to guarding hated foreigh dignitaries than a School on a normal day.
To witness the 'Security' for the first time you wonder why they are there and what all their fussing is all about, they act as if they have just 24 hours to diffuse a bomb in the Headmasters Buscuit tin and their names are all Mr J.Baur. The Pupils assume its for behaviour intimidation, and the result is a complete lack of respect fostered towards any percieved 'security/law and order'. Thats not the kind of lesson that the so-called (so Im told) "control freak" Headmaster hoped to instill in his Pupils I'd imagine.
As for the 'Security people', their self important but needless job, and the low esteem in which it is seen gives them a kind of Keystone Cop aspect (it must be all that pointless running back and forth they do).

Despite the Heads (alledged) megomania the Pupils have still been able to make the same kind of diverse friends and have some fun, even with their break times all but now gone. But I think I can honestly say that the days of Teachers actually thinking of Holland Park School as a good and desirable place at to work are long gone, as is the respect that all staff had for their Head. Of the Teachers who were there and hoped to continue there for their entire careers, many have now done what they once would of laughed at you for suggesting, and left to Teach elsewhere, others have retired, the ones there now are not happy.
And if the Teachers arent happy the kids wont be.
We can only wonder if he harbours secret desires to take on Academy status, then he could be the de-facto Dictator of his own mini Empire, answerable to no one (as if hes not acting like he is now anyway).
*no they are not Pupil comments.
**yes, it is a Pupils comment.