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Updated May 13, 2008
May 13, 2008
Great site. A form of "tough love" for teachers. Students are people too
and they deserve respect. It is a two way street. Eventually, with a large
enough sample it will even out between the honest comments and rubbish. I
hope the teachers treat the feedback as data, not personal, they are
educators and this can be an invaluable sourece of info and take action
accordingly. Only issue is that the site does not take into account
teachers attempts at improvment.
September 21, 2007
You invite people to contact you and I have done so on 28th August 2007. I
expect to see my E-mail posted on your site in the very near future, given
your "mission statement" of aiming for frank and free discussion within
legal constraints. You have already transgressed your own rules in
allowing comments of "a sexual nature" on to this site and there are many
more incidences of teachers being maligned and denied the same rights as
those accorded to people accused of murder or other nefarious crimes.
They are allowed recourse to legal expertise to establish innocence or
mitigating circumstances.
April 6, 2007
Many thanks for your prompt reply, I do appreciate your help in this matter
and acknowledge the responsible way you obviously manage this site.
Yours L.Edwards
April 6, 2007
Im really suprised to read that throughout this page the general feeling,
primarily of educators, is extremely negative. Many teachers seem to think
that this site should be taken as gospel and is somehow actually used to
determine their teaching skills. They are all missing the point. Having
read numerous comments from teachers (which I must say all come across
extremely arrogant) I would like to say: 1.Pupils are not allowed to leave
their name with a comment. I assume that this is primarily due to the fact
that so many teachers view the website in such a negative way and would
probably make life extremely uncomfortable for pupils at school. 2.Their
are guidelines with regards as what ratings may or may not say. For
example; No comments based on rumours, no libelious comments, no comments
that are sexual in nature, no comments with regards to personal appearance
and disabilities etc etc etc. 3.Below, someone said how wrong it is to
include teachers first names. Why? Teachers first names are usually on
their doors and a vast majority of pupils in a school will already know a
teachers name. If for some reason someone wanted to track a teacher down
they wouldnt need their first name anyway and Im pretty sure that upon
typing a name of a teacher and their school into a search engine that a
document or website would come up where the teachers first name is
displayed. Finally no one cares what your first name is anyway!!! 4.I have
to agree that some comments are very immature and most of them make me
laugh for example "I was sitting doing my work and all of a sudden he
shouted at me for talking" obviously 99% of people aren't going to believe
this so why worry about it. 5.If you look at it statiscally its the
scholars that do well in class that most teachers get on with. Its the
scholars who will be using their tuime more constuctively than rating
sites so clearly most comments wont be brilliant. But are you really that
bothered? 5.If it bothers you that much dont look at the site. Ater
reading the user comments by teachers and staff alike I feel that they are
being completely over the top, immature and quite frankly pathetic. This
site is based on opinion HOWEVER, im sure that alot of things said will be
fact and I feel that this is what teachers have a problem with. As a
trusted moderator I have to review teacher complaints. A majority of the
time the complaint is "no longer a teacher" and this is written about
every teacher of a school. Do you really think im so stupid as to think
that there is no longer a teawchers present at a school? This is clearly a
member of staff trying to get every one deleted. Why waste your time? In
the end we have to remember that it is the pupils that are being taught.
We are the best people to know what is working, not a member of OFSTED or
a member of senior management that spends so much time out of the
classroom and filling in paperwork that they know less about effective
teaching methods than the teachers in question. Each child is different
thus needs slightly different teaching methods, this is obviously
impossible but if this site lets a pupil say "I dont like the way we have
to copy from a book" than how is that libelious or untrue? Maybe teachers
should read the comments as constuctive critiscism. A Trusted moderator.
April 6, 2007
I think this can be a valuable forum.
My daughter started primary school last September. The head-teacher
regularly sends out school newsletters which are full of spelling mistakes
and basic grammatical errors. When I pointed this out at her open evening,
I was told that my attitude was "unhelpful" and that rigidly sticking to
correct spelling and grammar were "old fashioned concepts".
It's about time that teachers were introduced to the modern business
world, where good use of English can mean the difference between success
and failure.
I'd make it compulsory for every teacher to spend a few weeks every year
in industry to see just how the world works!
April 6, 2007
why not start a site where teachers can comment on and rate the STUDENTS??
praise for the worthy...and the TRUTH about the rude, lazy and ignorant.
wouldnt parents welcome the opportunity to read what taechers really
think???
April 3, 2007
I was online and stumbled accross this website through my inability to successfully locate another using the search engine; 'google'. I was astonished that such a site existed and I am just enquiring as to the need or benefit of this website? What are its (legitimate) aims? What does it endeavour to achieve? Do those responsible for the creation of this site really believe it has a useful purpose? I feel that the existence of statistics depicting the ever increasing amount of students attending third level education portrays very clearly, the positive and promising state of primary and secondary education in our region, and fail to appreciate the rationale for providing students with an online forum to mock and redicule teachers, whom have already passed examinations which state their capability as teachers. Your forum is not, should not, and could never be viewed by an educated person as anything other than disreputable and shameful. It is because of people who blame others for their failure(s) that I am so happy I did not choose to become a teacher. Thankfully therefore I will never be a subject of your pointless, insignificant and inconsequential forum, which I think acts as nothing more than an 'online canvas' for teenage graffiti.
Kind Regards.
P.s. I would suggest that you assess your contribution to the world, in light of my criticisms, and then consider whether you are in a position to provide a forum for the analysis of others' contribution.
April 3, 2007
I've read the debate and opinions on whether pupils should be allowed to
comment on teachers but all that aside I'd like to know if you have anyway
of ensuring comments posted are made by pupils. How do you know these are
genuine comments from the classroom and are not vindictive comments from
other people who have issues with the teacher.
I personally don't like the thought that just because I chose teaching as
a career that ex boyfriends, student teachers I have worked with and
anyone else with a problem with me has a forum to post comments which make
me look unprofessional and which further to that can be read by both my
pupils and their parents.
Can you reassure me and all other teachers on your website that all the
comments posted about us have genuiniely been written by our classes? I
suspect not!
April 3, 2007
Teachers who have commented are under the impression this site is run by
and for pupils .. WRONG we parents can comment as well and I`m amazed at
all the negative and unhelpful comments coming from the educators. I for
one am not surprised at all - in my son`s school the Head Teacher and
teachers talk down to both pupils and parents alike and we are all treated
with the same arrogance as shown by the educators who have commented on
this site.. It`s no wonder the teaching profession are not respected like
they used to be there is far to much arrogance and bad attitude coming
from schools these days ......
March 30, 2007
Thank you ratemyteacher site for providing a forum whereby students can air
there opinions publicly.Students are entitled to opinions, entitled to
expess their feeling and perceptions of ANY adults behaviour in school.
The benefits are positive when the honest OPINIONS are aired, read by the
teachers concerned and taken on board and dealt with. It protects the
student from being labeled as a 'trouble maker'and reasurres parents of
what is really happening in schools. The teachers can examime their owm
concious, and if its not the truth no need to be worried. If its the
truth, fix it immediately and watch the positve comments flow in.