Rate My Teacher

Jul
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their web traffic. That’s it. They are in this to make money at the expense of teachers using the law of polarization.


Everyone knows that the brains of students under the age of 20 have not been fully developed yet in the frontal cortex. This is the inhibitory region of the brain from the more emotional limbic region. This is why young people are so driven by their emotions. Giving rebellious youth and “my kid can do no evil” parents a platform to bash their teachers over the Internet is nothing less than slander. The main criteria for a slander case is that it caused a person financial harm. The main commodity a teacher has is her reputation. Attack a teachers reputation to where a school district fires her, and you have a slam dunk slander case that will go against Rate My Teacher.

In fact, the stupid people who run Rate My Teacher write, “If a parent or administrator reviews the ratings on Rate My Teachers (assuming there is a broad enough sample), they will see that there is typically a consistency amongst the ratings.” Here the website is even inviting school administrators to review their website in order to take some type of action, either favorably or non-favorably, against a teacher! These idiots did not even consult a lawyer first and use a disclaimer like, “This information is for entertainment purposes only and is not intended nor meant for any administrative or other action taken against the teachers reviewed. Warning, you can be sued for liable slander based on your comments and you take all the risks associated with your posts, not Rate My Teacher. Rate My Teacher will not defend you in court. You are anonymous to the public but not to us. We will turn over all your records if requested.”

Rate My Teachers gives the appearance of fairness because they allow a teacher to use their system to respond to comments and defend herself. How absurd. A teacher would have to visit the site everyday (which is what Rate My Teachers wants so they can claim more website visitors and thus sell advertising space for more money) for years to make sure she wasn’t bashed on it. Worse, defending yourself in a hostile environment is a little like going into Kentucky Fried Chicken and complaining that they don’t sell a western bacon cheeseburger. Anyone who has any experience with message forums on the Internet knows that biased moderators, multiple alias accounts, and familiarity with other users cause a complete break down in logic causing nothing but time wasting flame wars.

Ask yourself this question. Why do most businesses not put a message forum on their websites unless their business model is a message forum? Because of human psychology. The impetus is

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One Response to “Rate My Teacher”

  1. susan MonsterID Icon susan on September 9th, 2010 7:36 am

    Does anyone know how to get a teacher’s name removed from the site? I have an order of protection, but it has been ineffective in getting the slanderous entries removed from my teacher rating. I have comtacted the site many times and they have asked me to show them the legal documentation, but they will not provide me with an address or phone number to submit the documents. Meanwhile my number of ratings is well over the 400 mark-of which 375 are ditectly done by one individual. Tell me how this is fair!

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