"It's gotten out of control."
Anela said there was no resolution at the meeting between her father and the school.
Her older sister Tineka, who also attended Napier Girls', said the principal "railroaded them" and tried to deflate the situation.
Her father Andrew Pritchard said he was "proud" of his daughter for standing up for herself and speaking her mind.
He said Anela was suspended without the title.
She said she wasn't comfortable about returning to school because of the animosity from the students and teachers.
"I simply wanted the help I needed but didn't get it. I felt this was the only way the teacher would listen."
"The teachers make the students feel dumb, if you're not a gifted student you're cast aside. This attitude leads to depression and suicide as students feel bullied."
She has received a number of messages of support, thanking her and calling her brave. There were also messages from people saying they had had the same experience.
She will host a dinner before she plans to move to Australia.
The story so far:
The principal of Napier Girls' High School has advised that the school never suspended Anela Pritchard, a 15-year-old student who made a speech claiming her teachers needed to work harder, rather than "sit around and do nothing".
Mary Nixon said she has also met with the student, her father and her sister and the issue has been resolved. She said the student was welcome back at school today.
"We value student voice at the school. The Principal and staff are working hard to personalise learning, but when issues involving student and staff wellbeing are raised, it is important to deal with those involved with proper consideration."
"The student delivered a speech that was provocative. She emailed a copy of her speech to a number of teachers causing upset. Colleagues and students in the wider school were shocked and upset."
In the statement released this morning, The Principal said she "immediately on hearing about this", arranged a meeting with the student and her father to better understand the student's thinking and objectives about the speech and to hear her ideas. That meeting took place yesterday as did a meeting with her classmates.
"Following the meeting with the student and her family, late yesterday afternoon, the Principal had meetings with several staff and then with the Board Chair to ensure all were informed."
Education Minister Hekia Parata says schools need to recognise that students have opinions, and balance that against how to deliver education.
"I am aware of the story, and I understand that the ministry and the school are sorting out actually whether she was stood down or not. So that is a matter for them," Ms Parata told Hawke's Bay Today's sister paper, the Herald.
"The vast majority of teachers and principals I have met ... are pretty well balanced and fair in delivering a great education. And that needs to be balanced against students will have their points of view, and will want to express those."
Anela, a Year 10 student, also criticised her teachers for making students feel useless and teaching them irrelevant information instead of how to survive in the real world.
"We have all these teachers that don't enjoy their jobs and are all angry about the cut backs in their paychecks, making us feel like complete idiots and making us feel useless," she said in her speech, which she later posted on her Facebook page.
"Like it's our fault that we don't understand the work.
"Maybe some of us just don't understand it.
"Or maybe the teacher didn't teach it very well, but we're the ones dealing with the consequences of failure.
"It's teachers like this that make us students want to skip class and not go to school because they think we aren't good enough for a certain subject. Like we are stupid and will never understand it.
"Teachers are paid to teach us, not paid to hand out a piece of paper with words on it and sit around and do nothing."
In the speech - which attracted nearly 7000 likes and hundreds of comments within 24 hours - Anela said students struggled and stressed "over things that aren't important in the long run".
"In high school we should be learning about the real world - how to pay my taxes, apply for jobs, mortgage my house, buy a car - things that we will actually use in the future.
"So far, I've only learned that whatever I manage to get done in a short amount of time isn't enough."
She said after her speech her teacher "left the class looking rather sad".
It is understood the popular teacher was moved to tears.
When Anela arrived home the following day her father told her the school had said she was not welcome at school until he had a meeting with the principal.
Orchard worker Andrew Pritchard said he stood by his daughter's opinions and had hoped for an apology, which was not forthcoming at a meeting with the principal yesterday. He said the school had indicated that Anela was welcome to return.
School principal and Hawke's Bay Secondary Schools Principals Association president Mary Nixon did not return calls.
"The school were protecting their own butt, which I totally understand, but I don't think Anela is satisfied with what she has got," Mr Pritchard said.
"I've left the ball in her court but I don't think she really wants to be there - there is a bit of animosity as far as teachers go, as well as fellow students."
It was up to her to decide if she would return before the school holidays, during which she would move to Australia to live with her brother.
Her mother had passed away "a good few years ago".
"I can see both sides but at the end of the day all she was doing was just standing up and telling her side of the story. To be prosecuted for it, I think, is a little bit rough," Mr Pritchard said.
A Facebook comment from IronMaori co-founder and Hawke's Bay District Health Board member Heather Skipworth QSM, commended Anela for saying not all teachers taught poorly.
"Thank you for speaking on behalf of yourself and many others that wouldn't have the confidence to do so," Ms Skipworth said.
"Our education system is failing many of our kids, not because they are rebellious, but purely because one size does not fit all."
Anela Pritchard's speech:
I'm a decently smart kid, with some decently good grades.
But sometimes I believe that, with the essays, worksheets and endless amount of study assigned to me each day, that teachers secretly hate me, rather than actually wanting to help me do better.
They most likely, if anything really, just do it for the pay check. I'm not saying all teachers do, but the majority of them appear to be that way.
I always think about how I do believe school is important, however I don't believe most of the stuff taught there is.
Do I honestly need to know what a= 1+rn to the 2nd power is, go over the Treaty of Waitangi every year since I was literally 5, or memorize the periodic table in order to get somewhere in life?
Do I honestly need to know the structure of a seed and how it works and whatnot? No, I don't think so. I believe school should, instead, teach us more valuable information that we'll actually need for our futures.
In High School, we should be learning about the real world, how to pay my taxes, apply for jobs, mortgage my house, buy a car, things that we will actually use in the future.
So far, I've only learned that whatever I manage to get done in a short amount of time isn't enough.
What's that? You did your homework, but didn't do one question because you found it difficult and you were struggling? Well, there's a unsatisfactory for homework on your mid term report! Now, that's just not OK.
What my point is, we all struggle, and work, and stress our selves over things that aren't important in the long run. Two years after High School, and the majority of the students who've graduated have already forgotten anything they've learned in the last four years of their school career.
Stressing myself over end of year exams, because if I fail, I have my parents on my back, asking me why I didn't try hard enough, my teacher telling me I could have focused harder in class and my peers simply telling me that I'm stupid? Ridiculous.
I honestly used to love going to school. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and it made me happy to go to school, to meet friends, to learn things that I never knew.
But the minute High School starts, it's either you fly, or you fall. Now I strongly dislike it, and want nothing to do with it.
Some teachers are nice, there are a good few who are genuinely nice and want to help us but it seems that the teachers that are not willing to encourage and help me are all teachers of the subjects I'm not good at and it also happens to be that I don't enjoy them.
It's unbelievable how some teachers play favorites.
They believe you can do better than your best? If they wanted me to do better, wouldn't they actually help me to understand? they wouldn't shove more work down my throat and expect me not to have any trouble with it.
I'm not saying to treat me special because I struggle in the subject but because I'm a student who would like to learn things by a teacher, and not a book.
Actually do the teaching that you were taught and you are paid to do. Don't just give me worksheets to do and expect me to take a test on the topic 2 days later.
You know...the school system is really screwed up...We have all these teachers that don't enjoy their jobs and are all angry about the cut backs in their paychecks. Making us feel like complete idiots and making us feel useless. Like it's our fault that we don't understand the work! Maybe some of us just don't understand it! Or maybe the teacher didn't teach it very well, but we're the ones dealing with the consequences of failure.
It's teachers like this that make us students want to skip class and not go to school because we think we aren't good enough for the certain subject. Like we are stupid and will never understand it...
Teachers are PAID to TEACH us.. not paid to hand out a piece of paper with words on it and sit around and do nothing!!!!!!! I'm not saying all teachers are bad, and I understand that us as students need to make an effort. But our teachers chose this career and need to try to cater for each individuals education.
We spend 7 hours, 5 days a week, plus extra hours on top of that going over the days work, revision, studying, completing unfinished work and also homework give, working to please every single teacher, the least the could do is have some understanding and simply teach.
