RateMyTeachers.com – K-12 Teacher Ratings by Students and Parents __ If you thought “Fucked Company.com” caused a rukus, wait until this gets into full swing. Finally, the answer to competency. Bottom-up reviews. Fabulous idea if they let it go full tilt.
If this doesn’t put webcams in classrooms nothing will.
Right now Canada, USA, Ireland and the UK are covered. The drawback here is that if this starts to look like a deep pockets website then they’ll get sued doing this and its effectiveness will whither. It already looks too slick.
via K. Burel
OLD news in the U.S., at least for the teachers at my school. I first heard about ratemyteachers.com two years ago, and I’ve been rated at both my schools (some favorable, some not). I suppose principals could use it as a data point to fire someone, but it wouldn’t be overt. Let the students say what they must. The good teachers get good ratings and the bad teachers get bad ratings. Nothing wrong with that.
I’m pretty shocked that my old school is there. I grew up in a small town on Vancouver island, and there it is, with hundreds of reviews.
The commentor above says the information could be used to covertly fire someone. I doubt that. It seems to me that people don’t really care what students think. I wish they did.
In university they get you to fill out assesments on every class. And no one cares. The terrible professors are still there year after year. I suspect this will be the same.
(And in defense of principals, it is difficult to take random, anonymous comments too seriously.)
That’s a scary site. I also realized how many of my friends are teachers. I had to look them all up.
It seems to me that it’s mostly the misanthropes posting negative reviews of teachers, along with a few positive reviews for the teachers who let them off the hook the easiest.
What this do in the states where bible thumpers don’t like evolution being taught in class? In that case, it wouldn’t reflect the teachers are bad, just that the parents are idiots.