Cabramatta High School is the local high school of Cabramatta, an urbanised suburb located in south-west Sydney, Australia. The school was established in 1958 as the suburb's first high school. It has attracted much undue negative publicity in the last decade over sensationalised media reports that drug and gang-related crimes were directly linked to Cabramatta High School students. Despite this problem though, Cabramatta High School has an impressive record of academic and practical successful students, mostly achieving grade-averages higher than most other schools in the local area.
The school created a Peace garden as a memorial to student's families history going through the war, it was broadcast as a documentary on ABC channel Australia.
The ACO (Australian Chamber Orchestra) in late 2005 chose Cabramatta High School as the first school to be in their new education program.
On the 25th of October, 2006, the school was selected as the first school in South-West Sydney to have an RAP (Respect Acceptance Participation) Day for student representatives from secondary school and Intensive English Centres across South Western Sydney Region.
On the 3rd of November, 2006, Cabramatta High School hosted the “Make Noise for Peace Day”, in commemoration of the award of the Sydney Peace Prize to Irene Khan. Irene Khan herself, along with Director of the Sydney Peace Foundation, Stuart Rees, Member of Legislative Assembly for Cabramatta, Reba Meagher, Director of Department of Education, Doctor Paul Brock, various other members from Amnesty International, Religious leaders, various organizations, and students from other primary and high schools were present at the occasion.
Cabramatta High School has been praised by many people in the Public for its great diversity of students with the great conception of multiculturalism and peace of many different cultures in enabling an enjoyable location to learn.
The school celebrated their 50th year anniversary with a banquet at the local restaurant.
On the 21st of November 2008, the Class of 88 (86 for Year 10) celebrated their 20th year reunion at the Barclay Lounge. The event was attended by a strong turnout of former students and also a number of teachers were there to celebrate the evening.
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“Someday soon, we hope that all middle and high school will have required courses in child rearing for girls and boys to help prepare them for one of the most important and rewarding tasks of their adulthood: being a parent. Most of us become parents in our lifetime and it is not acceptable for young people to be steeped in ignorance or questionable folklore when they begin their critical journey as mothers and fathers.”
—James P. Comer (20th century)
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—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“For those parents from lower-class and minority communities ... [who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.”
—Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)