Web site lets students rate their teachers

Detroit News ^ | 1/12/04 | Amy Lee

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Intense government pressure to improve school and teacher performance through complicated legislation has brought students to a rating system of their own.

Kids are using the Internet to praise, vilify and, at times, cajole teachers.

A Web site

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

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[Support Free Republic]

Without the support of Freeper donations, Free Republic would go belly-up, leaving guys like The French Gynecologist to be unopposed. And we can't have that!

[cyborg]

It's great. I posted one about an awful awful teacher I had in fifth grade. Memorable this beotch was. I think awful, horrible teachers should be outed more often.

[billorites]

The Dartmouth Review rates the Best Professors.

and blasts The Worst.

[billorites]

"I think awful, horrible teachers should be outed more often."

I agree.

I had a terrible 5th grade teacher. He lasted two years before becoming the town's cab driver.

[LisaMalia]

I think I'll start a site where teachers can rate students.

[cyborg]

hehe... some people are not cut out to be teachers.

[FoxInSocks]

I remember seeing something on TV recently about a university (in Texas?) that had something similar. Some of the faculty was trying to shut it down, I believe.

[Snowy]

WooHoo! There's also a site ratemyprofessors.com. There are two of mine that deserve a terrible rating! (Bwahahahaha!)

[ex-snook]

Students will know many years later that their best teachers did not win their popularity contest.

[Dante3]

I find the publication of anonymous evaluations and discussion of people who are not public figures offensive, a further erosion of our right to privacy, and subject to abuse. If there are awful teacher, then students should have the opportunity to report them to the school administration.

Same goes for students. If evaluations of teachers can be published, why not evaluations of students? Next it is patient-doctors relationship.

[MattAMiller]

My first grade teacher was an absolutely certifiable nutcase. She's probably not dead yet and I want to get my licks in. Couldn't find the school though. In fact I could only find one school I went to, which is suprising because I moved a lot.

[eno_]

“What comes next? Rate my doctor.com? Rate my dentist.com? Rate my newsreporter.com? I don’t find that terribly productive.”

Cops are next. All deserve it.

[Camachee]

PING!

[January24th]

Ping yourself! LOL!

www.ratemyprofessors.com

It's cathartic, if nothing else.
:)

[jagrmeister]

>They see it site as a free-for-all where a few well-chosen words by a mean-spirited student can devastate a teacher’s online rating and reputation.

Give me a break. Teachers, like any other profession, fight to avoid any accountibility. Accountibility must always be thrust on any industry. This is no different. This is a great website and much overdue.

[cincinnati65]

*bump* for later research

[Larry Lucido]

"I think I'll start a site where teachers can rate students."

That's called a "Report Card," isn't it? :-)

[So Cal Rocket]

I'm going to rate your post on www.RateTheFreeper.com.

[roadcat]

"I think I'll start a site where teachers can rate students."
That's called a "Report Card," isn't it? :-)

Right on the mark, excellent! Teachers whine a lot but get free passes.

One time, one of my daughters' high school teachers tried to fail every student in the class because things weren't to his liking. The guy was a rotten a**h*** as well as a rotten teacher. Me and my wife met with him several times to try to get him to change what he did, most of all because our daughter worked hard, performed well and had straight A's and an F did not sit well with us. We drew up the beginnings of a lawsuit and dropped it on the principal's desk. She agreed with us and the teacher was removed from teaching that class again.

Sometimes students have no recourse but to accept what teachers dish out, and there are a lot of parents who plain don't care what goes on in their childrens schools. I like this idea that they can rate their teachers.