Parade College

I graduated a few years ago and often find myself reflecting on my experience and how it has affected me throughout the years. Males should not be sent to all male schools - the mix of gender provides for the crucial balance in a social dynamic. This can't be experienced at an all male school and attributes to the inherently sexist culture of this school along with untamed toxic masculinity running throughout the internal culture of students. Please think thoroughly before sending your boy here... Its been a long process having to unlearn and detach from learnt behaviour which is so infectious.

one of the boys treated me horribly said many horrible things about me being a dwarf. one of them sent me a photo which made me feel very uncomfortable it was very raunchy! and even said many horrible things to my best friend who deserves better! boys from parade really don’t know how to treat girls

Bullying and lack of due care at Parade College has existed for years. The leadership group at Parade College both campuses over numerous years have not provided the required duty of care nor competency to deal with bulling incidents and believe they are not accountable nor answerable. The incidents are surrounded in secrecy and the leadership group provide little to no information or are only interested in their own self worth and 'power trips" and do not place the students' needs above their own. Don't bother complaining because they believe they are always right and parents are answerable to the school and not the other way around. However complaining to the Department of Education is useless because they advise they have no authority over Catholic what a contradictory term as the word catholic is not being truly represented here by the school's attitude schools and the Catholic Office of Education will protect the school and provide no evidence on their findings of supposedly no bullying mismanagement other than the school was perfect and there is no room for improvement. How can this even be credible if they determine a school is perfect? A current case of bullying is with the Supreme Court reported by the ABC and The Age in May 2022 because the victim is the one expelled as his parents were frustrated with the lack of results by the leadership group at Parade College Preston rightly so and voiced their dissatisfaction which was unacceptable by Parade College. Yet the suspected bully is still at the school and any attempts to provide other supporting evidence to the ABC and to the victim's solicitors Legal Matrix is ignored by both the ABC and the solicitors. At Parade College, the attitude is that parents answer to the school at all times but the school does not answer to the parents at anytime. Perhaps if a class action of bullying and negligence in their duty of care against the school was taken, then Parade College and their attitudes would be forced to change and this would send a similar message to other offending catholic schools who also believe they are 'untouchable'.

from someone who has dated a parade boy, these creatures are a different breed, most of what they say is air raids and to be honest the boys at the school aren't hot enough to be actin the way they act. the few that are decent to look at hit my line.

Had serious bullying issues. Doubt if any thing has changed since i was there !

Most of the teachers are nice and the facilities are great, but pretty much every student is an annoying athletic kid. The uniform is impractical, as there are 2 and the overall comfortability is 1. The blazers are cool though. The main uniform has about 8 pockets on it. Plus, Mr Rosbrook is definitely the best teacher. Overall, bad school.

The year 7s got new laptops but the rest of the school are left with the horrible quality ones. The battery runs out in half a day and are very flimsy. But other than that the school is not bad

Fantastic School- my son just graduated in 2020. Parade has always been professional throughout the 6 years he attended. Their teachers, facilities and approach are to be commended. Highly recommended if you are wanting a catholic male only education for your son.

A wonderful nurturing environment for young men. I have a son who just finished VCE and another one in Year 10. My boys have done extremely well there and during lockdown, the teachers were exceptional. I can't fault the school and I highly recommend it.

I been going to this school for a while now. I personally believe that the facilities are fine, but that's about it. Students here show no respect, are violent, and do not even care about learning. I find that the teachers don't care and won't even help prevent this. I do not recommend this school at all.