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Web site lets students rate their teachers
Detroit News ^
| 1/12/04
| Amy Lee
Posted on 01/12/2004 10:13:26 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:09:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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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
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: education; evaluation; nclb; teachers; website
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
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.
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posted on
01/12/2004 10:18:49 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: Support Free Republic
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posted on
01/12/2004 10:23:16 AM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: cyborg
"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.
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posted on
01/12/2004 10:24:54 AM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I think I'll start a site where teachers can rate students.
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posted on
01/12/2004 10:25:44 AM PST
by
LisaMalia
(Buckeye Fan since birth!!)
To: billorites
hehe... some people are not cut out to be teachers.
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posted on
01/12/2004 10:26:12 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
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.
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
WooHoo! There's also a site ratemyprofessors.com. There are two of mine that deserve a terrible rating! (Bwahahahaha!)
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posted on
01/12/2004 10:45:10 AM PST
by
Snowy
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Students will know many years later that their best teachers did not win their popularity contest.
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posted on
01/12/2004 10:49:55 AM PST
by
ex-snook
(Protectionism is patriotism in the war for American jobs.)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
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.
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posted on
01/12/2004 11:10:01 AM PST
by
Dante3
To: cyborg
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.
To: Dante3
What comes next? Rate my doctor.com? Rate my dentist.com? Rate my newsreporter.com? I dont find that terribly productive. Cops are next. All deserve it.
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posted on
01/12/2004 11:46:21 AM PST
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending)
To: January24th
PING!
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posted on
01/12/2004 11:48:07 AM PST
by
Camachee
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To: Camachee
Ping yourself! LOL!
www.ratemyprofessors.com
It's cathartic, if nothing else.
:)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
>They see it site as a free-for-all where a few well-chosen words by a mean-spirited student can devastate a teachers 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.
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:25:34 PM PST
by
jagrmeister
(I'm not a conservative. I don't seek to conserve, I seek to reform.)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
*bump* for later research
To: LisaMalia
"I think I'll start a site where teachers can rate students."
That's called a "Report Card," isn't it? :-)
To: eno_
I'm going to rate your post on www.RateTheFreeper.com.
To: Larry Lucido
"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.
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posted on
01/12/2004 1:19:17 PM PST
by
roadcat
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