After recently coming across Parrs Wood High School‘s website, and being somewhat impressed, I decided to check up on good ol’ Lytham High’s website, only to realise just how shit it actually is.
For example, take a look at this link: Lytham’s About Us Page If that’s what the school has to say about its self I think it’s pretty appalling. Have you seen the alignment ‘justify’ within those awfully shaped and coloured columns, and that thick, black, bold text? Whoever designed this should be shot. Have you ever seen such an eyesore, and one that so represents a school?!
Looking at the home page I can see that this designer didn’t just stop at ugly text, have you seen the table alignment?
I thought I had seen enough until I spotted dining room facilities referred to as ‘dining room facs’, does this school even know anything about education? Should slang really be encouraged?
The photographs of the dining room facilities shown, give a very inacurate portrayal of the actual dining room facilities, which are more often than not closed (recently caused by a burst sewage pipe in the kitchen!), thus creating a very crowded, stuffy area to eat. This area in these circumstances I am sure would not meet fire safety regulation standards, especially when all but two doors to enter the dining area are locked.
The mezzanine area, pictured with sixth formers, is very outdated seeing as it has been permanently closed for months now, because of so called ‘litter problems’, -I’m sure it’s nothing to do with the fact the school cannot afford staff to run the cafeteria upstairs. So why is it that Lytham High thought it was an absolute must to build such an over the top ‘modern’ dining facility (seen here), when they hadn’t even thought of the slight chance that staff would want paying to work. It seemed that the school began running out of money when it came to furnishing the mezzanine, consequently, chairs did not fit under the tables, like they are supposed to.
To comment on the staff some more, they are never as happy as seen on this photo here, and they regularly insist that I cannot just buy 2 pieces of garlic bread for my lunch, instead, I have to buy a meal in order to buy my garlic bread. Tell me please when the fuck did Jamie Oliver ever say that 18 year olds cannot buy garlic bread on it’s own, but instead have to spend more money and subsequently eat more calories to get it! How is that healthy eating?!
And if that’s not enough the website doesn’t meet w3c accessibility standards level 1! By not providing a minimum of level 1 accessibility a website is illegal as it is discriminate against those with disabilities, violating the Disability Discrimination Act.
Hmm..I feel better after that.
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