Hackney's Education and Image

Most people from other parts of England presume that Hackney is a bad place for education and such, but I am going to prove them wrong!

Hackney is filled with intelligent individuals but Hackney’s bad reputation ruins their chance to shine! Hackney’s primary schools have done extraordinarily well with SATs results; so have Hackney’s secondary schools in their KS3 SATs and GCSEs.

I go to a school in Potters Bar (north of London) and when people from my school hear I’m from Hackney they instantly think that I go round upon the roadside with a “shank” (which means knife in case you didn’t know), wear my trousers low and mention the word “blud” in every sentence - which isn’t true.

They also think that Hackney’s education isn’t very good, but I disagree with that. They don’t know what it’s like to live in Hackney and how things are there; they just believe what they hear on TV and all the things printed in the newspapers. Hackney needs to regain a good image in order to change peoples’ perceptions because Hackney is not as bad as it may seem!

About this story

This story was produced by Odaka Olugu, 13. It was published in Hackney Today.