I recently found a new website called "Rate My Teachers" http://ie.ratemyteachers.com/
How useful/useless is such a site? Is it just for old students to vent anger about their former teachers? Do teachers look at such sites?
Any posts would be helpful.
"Sea! Is féidir linne freisin!" Eamon Gilmore
"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
The Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: from -4.38 to -6.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: from -4.05 to -3.74
It's not new, it's been around for four years.
A friend of mine used to mod it in fact.
Good site, I used it to offer constructive criticism.
Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.
- [SIZE=2]Niccolò Machiavelli[/SIZE]
Originally Posted by L.O. Dublin S.C.
Websites aren't supposed to be useful.
Is this site useful?
A demagogue is someone who will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
It's on-line grafitti, and about useful as a toilet wall.
[quote=tic tac man]It's on-line grafitti, and about useful as a toilet wall.[/quote:3l9vakyz]
Not for the most part.
Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.
- [SIZE=2]Niccolò Machiavelli[/SIZE]
[quote=tic tac man]It's on-line grafitti, and about useful as a toilet wall.[/quote:1gundgaw]
Oh you like other people seeing you take a dump, do you? Perv!
A poster of some consequence...
I only found it a couple of weeks ago myself. So it is new to me.
"Sea! Is féidir linne freisin!" Eamon Gilmore
"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
The Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: from -4.38 to -6.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: from -4.05 to -3.74
Had a look. It seems to be populated with students posting such interesting and informative, not to mention constructive comments such as "legde" et etc.
So, no, not exactly interesting or helpful.
"......... we must sometimes listen to those who, consumed with zeal, have scant judgment or balance. To such ones the modern world is nothing but betrayal and ruin.........We feel bound to disagree with these prophets of doom who are forever forecasting calamity -- as though the world's end were imminent."
Looking at the ratings for my former teachers, I found it reasonably fair . Ive seen much more vindictive,childish , personal attacks on this site .
A more "useful" site would be "Rate my Student" or Rate my Student's Parents". I believe this was started by a parent of a student who was exposed to the idea in the US and who was also campaigning/supporting the idea for league tables for schools, etc. I don't think it ever took off - too easy to "fix" - some teacher friends of mine got upset when they got sh1t ratings but easily converted them to good by entering ratings for themselves, i.e., unless the system is transparent in its method of measurement - it is corrupt.
We are "they"
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