That's really too bad, but a New South Wales Secondary School wants to shut down Rate My Teachers.com for its defamatory content. That's rough, I think failing students would fire teachers who give them bad grades too, for defaming them in the face of their parents, but unfortunately we all have voices.
The college equivealent of the site is Rate my Professors.com, and it's really great. I try to be as honest as possible. It really turns teaching into the competetive field that it should be, by letting students select the most enriching college experience. I don't know how many teacher options High School students get, but if it makes teachers squeamish, they have two options:
1) Teach Better
2) Shut down the site
So, in the spirit of any bureaucratic sloth, these teachers are showing us all just how pathetic humans can be.
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Here at Carleton we have a sort of school sanctioned ratemyprofessor.
We have what is basically a giant message board called Caucus where there are topics about everything from IM teams to sex at college to which dorm to choose to etc. One of the topics is 'Review' where there are reviews of pretty much every teacher. Everyone with a Carleton e-mail address can get on Caucus, but the 'Review' thread is open only for current and former students.
Here are the guidelines for Review:
Review is a place for students to post about professors they've had, so that other students may make better-informed choices about which classes to take. Some things to remember:
* DO NOT, under any circumstances, share any of these reviews with any prof, even if it's not the prof being reviewed. Professors have been electronically excluded from this conference.
* That said, post honestly. If you believe a professor deserves a scathing review, that's fine, but be honest in your assessment and do not post anything libelous. Remember that your name is attached to your reviews and that despite our best efforts, leaks can happen.
* Both here and if you're asked to review a professor for the college's tenure review process, please only write about your personal experience with that prof and not a composite of other students' opinions.
* Some profs are, justifiably or not, uneasy about the existence of this conference. Do not do anything to feed their fears.
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