Valour JK-12 School

I’m a current student here (About to graduate in June), and I’ve been in this school for around six or seven years. DON’T GO HERE! The teachers for the most part are incompetent and at worst you have someone like Ms. Campbell who will actively sabotage you if she doesn’t like you. To any parents, send your kids somewhere else, please.The cafeteria is overpriced and the food is genuinely disgusting too, I always prefer to take the walk to somewhere like the nearby Independent, Dairy Queen, Little Caesers, etc, even if the weather is genuinely horrendous, it’s worth it so you don’t get gouged on things like poutine for $5.50, the poutine itself tastes mediocre at best, but the portion sizes are basically criminal.Can’t wait to graduate in June and never come back to this school again. There are some good teachers and staff like Mr. Schroeder in the photography classroom. I had him last year and I have him this year as well, and he’s, at least in my experience, one of the only good teachers here. Ms. Smith, who teaches English, is genuinely great too.But despite their best efforts, this school is just a horrendous sinking ship and no one should bother trying to plug the leak. If I could, I’d put negative stars.

If I could give this school negative stars I would. Worst school. My daughter attended for 4 years, and each year was always worst than the previous. If we had been staying in the Petawawa area, we were going to change to a different school. The staff, especially the office staff, are incompetent at best, and like to put the blame for all their mistakes and incompetence on anything else but themselves. The school is big, and the staff clearly cannot manage all the duties and responsibilities of the magnitude it requires. They also decided the best place for their smoking section was smack dab in the middle of where the children have to walk to get to the doors of the school. We had to walk our kids beside older kids smoking, swearing and spitting all over the sidewalk every day - DISGUSTING! If you are considering enrolling your child at this school, please do yourself a favor and choose a different one. Worst school we have had to deal with, ever.

This place is hell because some of the teachers at this school are just here for a paycheck. Mrs. Campbell who is a English teacher at this school is horrible and should be fired. She is very mean to students in class. Very contradicting of herself and acting as if she is right all the time and does a good job at managing assignments. Also, lowers your grades if she disagrees with an opinion that's different from hers or if she just doesn't like you. As a former student of hers, she has gotten so many complaints throughout the years but is still teaching even though she has done many mean actions to students like threating to send kids to the office for slangs, trying to suspend a student for laughing and gets worse as they weren't laughing at all, as well as getting angry at kids for whispering for an eraser. There are many other teachers at this school that are crazy too but she is just something else when it comes to being a terrible teacher. My advice would be to avoid this school or avoid the bad teachers like Campbell etc at all costs.

Valour high school is by far the worst places to send your children. The way they “educate” their students is ridiculous. The fact that this places feels more like a prison than a high school is unacceptable. The staff abuses their power and feels they are better than everybody else. If you are a parent looking at this review, SEND YOUR CHILDREN SOMEWHERE ELSE. The staff is nothing but ignorant, rude and intolerable. I almost got a trespassing charge because people decided to speak to me in the halls. This school is ridiculous and I hope they see it. If I could rate this place 0 stars I would. They deserve even less than that.

Serious lack of communication from faculty when trying to sort out a situation caused by an unprofessional staff member. How can you trust them to look after your kid if they can't manage themselves?

they taught me math

Secretaries are helpful and teachers go the extra mile

By far the worst school.I enrolled my children in Valour because they stated they had french immersion.I've had nothing but problems since day one. They refused to honor credits from NB, meaning my child had to do a 13th year.Now, at the start of the 13th year, my child is informed that he will not graduate with French immersion, but instead only extended French.My child has been in French immersion since grade 3, and only two years with Valour.My child worked hard for this and excelled in French, beating the odds with only English at home. How is this fair?My other child was pulled and put in Equinox. Best decision ever if anyone is looking for a French language school.

found a meat stick in the girls washroom sink

Changed my mind mid ong