Rate My Teacher

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always stronger to post something negative than something positive. If someone is satisfied, they have no reason to post. Negativity is always a stronger call to action than something positive. Because of this, it appears as though your entire customer base is unsatisfied when in reality it is a only a very small percentage.


One teacher writes on teachers.net, “I find the teacher rating site a great potential for slander and therefore I believe should be banned. Anyone is able to post a message based on unfound grievances they may have. How would it be if all teachers got together and created a Rate My Student site? Wouldn’t that be equally fair?”

Two of the biggest contributing groups to the Democrat party, at least in California, are unions and lawyers. I ultimately expect Rate My Teacher to be sued out of existence or at the very least, forced to drastically change their business model.

Chris Keates, National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) said, “Teachers need extra protection from pupils who abuse or humiliate them on rate my teacher web sites. There is a growing trend for children to leave offensive comments on the sites or to make allegations against staff on social networking sites. The rise in abusive messages has had an impact on some teachers’ health, while others say the public criticism has damaged their careers. Teachers are named, exposed to ridicule and subjected to false and malicious allegations.”

Rate My Teachers May Be a Short Lived Internet Fad

The union wants the government to review the law to give teachers more protection from being named on sites such as Rate My Teachers.

England’s Children and Schools Secretary Ed Balls said he understood teachers’ concerns about online bullying. He said, “Clearly anything that undermines the authority of teachers has to be stopped.”

Teachers in France organized and got the French version of “Rate My Teachers” shut down this year.

Here is the URL to Rate My Teacher: http://www.ratemyteachers.com/

By Joe Kodiar

http://www.ACEtheCSET.com

Joe Kodiar Rate My Teacher

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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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