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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. [history]

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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1 posted on 01/12/2004 10:13:27 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: All
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!
2 posted on 01/12/2004 10:14:20 AM PST by Support Free Republic (Hi Mom! Hi Dad!)
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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.
3 posted on 01/12/2004 10:18:49 AM PST by cyborg
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To: Support Free Republic
The Dartmouth Review rates the Best Professors.

and blasts The Worst.

4 posted on 01/12/2004 10:23:16 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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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.

5 posted on 01/12/2004 10:24:54 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I think I'll start a site where teachers can rate students.
6 posted on 01/12/2004 10:25:44 AM PST by LisaMalia (Buckeye Fan since birth!!)
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To: billorites
hehe... some people are not cut out to be teachers.
7 posted on 01/12/2004 10:26:12 AM PST by cyborg
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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.
8 posted on 01/12/2004 10:40:16 AM PST by FoxInSocks
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
WooHoo! There's also a site ratemyprofessors.com. There are two of mine that deserve a terrible rating! (Bwahahahaha!)
9 posted on 01/12/2004 10:45:10 AM PST by Snowy
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Students will know many years later that their best teachers did not win their popularity contest.
10 posted on 01/12/2004 10:49:55 AM PST by ex-snook (Protectionism is patriotism in the war for American jobs.)
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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.

11 posted on 01/12/2004 11:10:01 AM PST by Dante3
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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.
12 posted on 01/12/2004 11:19:58 AM PST by MattAMiller
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To: Dante3
“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.

13 posted on 01/12/2004 11:46:21 AM PST by eno_ (Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending)
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To: January24th
PING!
14 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.
:)
15 posted on 01/12/2004 11:56:23 AM PST by January24th
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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 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.
16 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.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
*bump* for later research
17 posted on 01/12/2004 12:33:22 PM PST by cincinnati65
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To: LisaMalia
"I think I'll start a site where teachers can rate students."

That's called a "Report Card," isn't it? :-)
18 posted on 01/12/2004 12:35:08 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: eno_
I'm going to rate your post on www.RateTheFreeper.com.
19 posted on 01/12/2004 12:36:36 PM PST by So Cal Rocket
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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.

20 posted on 01/12/2004 1:19:17 PM PST by roadcat
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