Rating teachers

BossArky

If you haven't seen this site check it out. Look for your old (or current?) school. Pretty funny some of the comments that students post about the teachers. It seems that the good one and bad ones come out in the wash at the end.

PowerHouseDan

I am a mod for it and you should see some of the coments that have to be deleted

egan007

BossArky wrote:

If you haven't seen this site check it out. Look for your old (or current?) school. Pretty funny some of the comments that students post about the teachers. It seems that the good one and bad ones come out in the wash at the end.

Seen it and tought it was harmless fun at first
But i have since learned that alot of disgruntled people are using it to badmouth their teachers. The teacher has no come back and it amounts to slander.

Sherifu

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=239904&highlight=ratemyteachers
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=237882&page=2&pp=20&highlight=ratemyteachers
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=234355&highlight=ratemyteachers


There is a search function :rolleyes:

joejoem

rkm wrote:

There is a search function :rolleyes:

Ah come on now, where's the fun in that?

Canis Lupus

Have to admit put me back as a 17 year old and I'd have had fun on that site but now I'm older and wiser I find ratemyteacher a bit appalling. It's not till your older that you appreciate A: The job teachers do and B: What a **** job it can be.

I think ratemyteacher is just plain wrong.

gibo_ie

powerhousedan wrote:

I am a mod for it and you should see some of the coments that have to be deleted

In fairness i cant see much modding being done on the site. I dont think i would appreciate some of the stuff i have seen written up there if i was the teacher. It is slander and very unfair. I dont think the IEDR should have allowed this to be registered as a .ie domain.

I hope that it gets taken down.

how would you like a ratemycollegue.ie ??

steviec

I've been out of school a few years but looking at my school at least, most of the comments are very fair. The good teachers have gotten praise and the bad teachers have gotten what they deserve. I don't see whats wrong with that, it's free speech.

egan007

steviec wrote:

I've been out of school a few years but looking at my school at least, most of the comments are very fair. The good teachers have gotten praise and the bad teachers have gotten what they deserve. I don't see whats wrong with that, it's free speech.

Free speech offers the right to reply.
This site does not offer this.
There is nothing to stop me making false accusations against a teacher
It's a site that needs to be god rid of immediately.

Blisterman

Im mod for my school, and the good teachers get high marks and the bad ones get low marks, even if they're strict, so I think it's fair.

magpie

Which school do you teach in Egan?

egan007

Blisterman wrote:

Im mod for my school, and the good teachers get high marks and the bad ones get low marks, even if they're strict, so I think it's fair.

Please! :rolleyes:
You think having 2 categories high and low is fair.
These are people!!!
Have you a relation a teacher?

egan007

magpie wrote:

Which school do you teach in Egan?

Im a software Engineer

Blisterman

Theres not 2 catagories. Im just saying, what teachers got on average. Plus Teachers can grade us, why cant we grade teachers?

jamieh

I've only looked at my old school but I think that some of the comments are unfair.

Fair enough, the idea of rating a teacher on their teaching abilities is a good idea, but some of the comments are very insulting, such as "a diet wouldn't go astray", "no fashion sense what so ever", etc etc.

egan007

Blisterman wrote:

Theres not 2 catagories. Im just saying, what teachers got on average. Plus Teachers can grade us, why cant we grade teachers?

Teachers grade you
1) for your benefit
2) In a fair manner
3) Openly

This is open to people hiding behind the net taking digs at real people.

whiskeyman

egan007 wrote:

Free speech offers the right to reply.
This site does not offer this.
There is nothing to stop me making false accusations against a teacher
It's a site that needs to be god rid of immediately.

True, but it can work the other way too.
When the site was fairly new, my old schools reviews were accurate in my opinion. Bad teachers got bad reviews and good teachers got good reviews. You'd be surprised how many students really appreciate good teachers.

However, now the teachers have learned about it, so its so obvious they are logging on themselves, or getting friends and family to "up" their average total.

There was one terrible teacher who had totally lost all commitment for the job... so many bad reviews, yet now all his latest reviews are lots of "5-5-5" (top marks) and comments like "A true model teacher the students love".

The site is totally irrelevant because of this. It just highlights the fact that we need proper independent reports on our schools. League tables mightnt be far off if the government has its way...

meglome

I do appreciate what people are saying about the last of reply which isn't fair alright. But from my own experience of school there were several teachers who had completely lost the plot. Seriously I thought some of them needed psychiatric help and at the very least should not have been teaching anyone. This doesn’t take away from some of the excellent teachers that I had over the years but there was never any way to complain about the quality of teaching you received. It seemed to be that a teacher would have to badly molest or kill a pupil before they would be fired.

Funnily enough it was staff from one of the Dept of Education offices that pointed the site out to me.

magpie

I'm sure all the teachers are crying into their pillows about ratemyteacher.ie during their 3 month long paid summer holidays.

"Sympathy, no sympathy, I have none, no not for thee..."

Trojan

Sad.

case_sensitive

Absolutely, I completely agree, there's nothing wrong with it, I've rated my 4 favourite teachers very highly (all have 4.5+ averages), and the idiot guidance councilor got the 1-1-1 she deserved, her average is 1.4 and doesn't even deserve that. update: the silly bint has rated herself! In amongst the lousy ratings, there are a few 5-5-5s with obviously auto-biographical comments.

@powerhousedan ; modding is very strict by the looks, I doubt much gets through. My brother teaches at a fairly exclusive all-boys school and there's one teacher there that is *insanely* hot, her *average* is 5, and nearly all of the comments have been removed. One that remains; "the fact they she teaches is a bonus".
Go free speech, they grade us, it affects our whole lives, we grade them, it affects their ego, or maybe their peer standing in the smoking room, deal with it.
A lot of teachers (particularly young ones) read that site, and at least one school displays the rankings in the staff room.
I've done some teaching too before you get all defensive, and you have to work hard for their respect, tough chillies if you haven't got it..

magpie

http://www.ratemyteachers.ie/ShowRatings.php?tid=3320&type=0

case_sensitive

ha ha... yeah, that's the one :->
Rating's gone down since I last looked though.

case_sensitive

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:_UT-IhK4HmMJ:www.nuim.ie/academic/adulted/DACEReport.pdf+Breda+Coyle+guidance&hl=en&client=firefox-a

<google html'ed pdf>
She's now teaching people how to be Guidance Councilors??? The idiocy of it is astounding..

Wow, just wrote a stinging letter of admonition to NUI Maynooth protesting their taste in tutors, and I'm not a regular 'Letters to the Editor'-type. That woman... sheesh.

Well, I like the concept. It exposes bad teachers. All the teachers see the site, and will be able to see their weaknesses, when students wouldn't usually be able to talk about them.

The problem is, though, the teachers at my school put pressure on our mod and he was made to delete all the comments. Even the good ones, and even the fair ones. Fascists! There were problems that were finally being addressed, but they have all been swept under the rug.

angry_fox

Ratemyteachers.ie should be taken down. Not fair to judge people like that when they cant reply. Must be hard on teacher who has been teaching all there life, only to be judged openly for everyone to see, by a couple of kids who have a problem with him/her.

angry_fox wrote:

Ratemyteachers.ie should be taken down. Not fair to judge people like that when they cant reply. Must be hard on teacher who has been teaching all there life, only to be judged openly for everyone to see, by a couple of kids who have a problem with him/her.

People have common sense, they won't trust one negative person amongst a lot of positive comments. If they are a good teacher, that is the overall impression that will be seen.

Gone West

your not supposed to link to individual teachers, so says one of the mods. (cent remember which one)

Scarinae

<Jonny> wrote:

People have common sense, they won't trust one negative person amongst a lot of positive comments. If they are a good teacher, that is the overall impression that will be seen.

In theory, yes; but in my school, for example, there are a lot of a$$holes who have been putting up bad ratings for teachers who have never even taught them, cos they've been picked up about their uniform or something

Has anyone else noticed that a lot of students seem to be put up as teachers of random subjects? It's sure happening on the page for my school anyway

case_sensitive

That's ridiculous, how can a teacher possibly pressure a mod for a US-based site, where freedom of speech trumps libel every time?
Come on, even if a teacher is critized, surely their egos can take it? I'm not talking about allegations of abuse (it that what people are alluding to??) I'm just talking about negative feedback about their methods or competancy.
Everyone has a right-to-reply, these schools should back off, and the mods should have stones enough to tell them where to stick it. Case for mods being ex-pupils maybe? Or a parent?

kano476

Does anyone know if the site has been taken down because i havent been able to access it in the past couple of days.???

Scarinae

kano476 wrote:

Does anyone know if the site has been taken down because i havent been able to access it in the past couple of days.???

Yeah it's weird, I just tried to go onto it there because of your post and I can't get onto it either. Maybe the server has just gone down temporarily?
I love your sig btw! That website cracked me up!!

Da_IRISH_ONE4U

No... RateMyTeachers has not been taken down (and never will be). Over the past week or so it has been undergoing some changes, the biggest of which was an entire server change which resulted in the site being offline for a period. It is however up and running again, and the RateMyTeachers forums will be back online very very soon. - RMT Trusted Administrator

Da_IRISH_ONE4U

case_sensitive wrote:

That's ridiculous, how can a teacher possibly pressure a mod for a US-based site, where freedom of speech trumps libel every time?
Come on, even if a teacher is critized, surely their egos can take it? I'm not talking about allegations of abuse (it that what people are alluding to??) I'm just talking about negative feedback about their methods or competancy.
Everyone has a right-to-reply, these schools should back off, and the mods should have stones enough to tell them where to stick it. Case for mods being ex-pupils maybe? Or a parent?

On each schools page there is a section where a parent can rate a teacher. These pages are also moderated by parents. About the mods being ex-pupils... It wouldn't work well. The school admins at present have the advantage that they know the new teachers in the school, and are well able to spot a "fake" teacher or student on the site. Students also tend to have more time to log on and review any ratings which they might have. - Trust me, it works better this way!

Since Christmas the site has had over half a million ratings and this number is still growing fast.

exiztone

I think it's a fantastic idea. So far, all the teachers have got their just desserts. It's accurate because the teachers who go in without much enthusiasm, yet still know it's there duty to teach get the average ratings. The teachers who are extremely poor and incapable in the classroom get the low ratings and the teachers with a wide knowledge of their subject along with a lot of enthusiasm and spirit to teach get the high ratings.

It's funny; I've also noticed the poorer teachers getting 5-5-5 recently. I think it's so sad that they feel so strongly about people voicing their criticism on their ability they have to try and disable the website. Not all the comments are digs at the teachers, you know. :rolleyes:

So, what have the teacher unions to be worried about? The worst I can think about is to have their ability audited. That doesn't matter much anyway because I remember a person from the Department of Education came to witness my English class for two days. The teacher had a 180-degree change of attitude. I wonder why she wasn't like that before :rolleyes:

There should be proper system for the serious student to be able to voice his or her opinion of the teachers. Good teachers should be rewarded and set as a standard for others; the bad teachers should be removed of their position.

Da_IRISH_ONE4U

Yeah, but there will always be students out there with a "grudge" against a teacher, and something like that could prove damaging to a teachers reputation. Anyways, as im sure you have ALL noticed... The site cannot be taken down due to a technicality. The site is hosted from America, and therefore is safe for now.