Rate My Teacher

For years id been taunted by my 5th grade teacher constantly mocking and yelling "common sense" at me in the middle of class. I've just recently found out i'm on the spectrum so i came online to say $#*! your you taylor swift hating sexist $#*!

I have tried to post honest positive and negative reviews of different professors. Most positive reviews got posted, but all negative reviews, albeit constructive, were taken down. I think they have some personal incentives to take them down, maybe due to connections with profs, bribes, etc. In any case, this is not an honest review site, heavily biased by moderating, don't believe the review stats.

The droves of disgruntled teachers and staff writing negative reviews are case in point, that criticism and feedback are critical in a system that regularly targets students and employs demeaning, intimidating educators.

Ratemyteacher is a decent service which allows the underrepresented student body to speak out and inform others of negative and positive experiences. My only complaint would be the lack of moderation, and how easy it is for offended teachers to take down reviews based on feelings alone.

Used to be a necessity before each coming school year to read about the teachers that I will be spending the majority of the following year with, but censorship has now ruined a once beautiful thing.

Maybe creating guidelines as to what people can or can't write would be better than completely eliminating the REVIEW part of the review... Every factor that is rated is subjective and doesn't tell nearly as much as a well thought out review about both the objective and subjective parts of their teaching style.

Instead of knowing that this teacher goes off on tangents every five minutes about Love Island, we now know that this teacher has a five star rating about textbook use (whatever the hell that even means)...

Fake website. They do not allow new users, new comments, or anything. I was abused by teachers in Portland, OR growing up, and it brings me sadness this website contributes to the abuse, removal of good information, and keeping kids from learning who their abusers are and what permanent may be done to them. School is NOT OPTIONAL for kids, teachers know this and set themselves up to abuse kids. Ratemyteachers plays their part in enabling this abuse by pretending to be a real website but you can see they have no users or reviews, nor did they ever send me an account confirmation link. Fake website. Take it down. Let a real team create a website here.

The old site was good, and allowed students to communicate honest opinions. The problem? Students were harassing teachers. What should have been the solution? Higher moderation and addressing flagged and reported comments. Their solution? Removing a student's ability to actually rate their teacher. It's useless now. I believe that there is a VERY large difference between being insulted because of your identity (such as homophobic and misogynistic comments) and being insulted because you are a terrible teacher. I remember seeing a teacher complain; I wish there was a site called ratemywhingystudents.com. Now, teachers like this who seriously believe it's the students that have an obligation to them, and not the other way around that have come out on top. If you are a teacher that thinks like this, and was glad the website changed because you no longer had to deal with criticism, I hope you lose you job, in complete and utter honesty.

I am very disappointed that the new owners of "Rate my Teacher" (as of 2019) deleted all the previous students' reviews of their teachers which had accumulated during a period of over 10 years worth!
The correct option should have been to remove any rude, racist and threatening reviews. As well, the new owners could have instead made changes to their website to prevent any such inappropriate future reviews. Unfortunately, by deleting all of the students' reviews they have also removed the accurate and relevant reviews that would have benefited many other future students. Censorship is not a solution, and often backfires. We all know too well that there are some terrible teachers out there. Students had no other way of expressing their experiences with their teachers. Unfortunately, teachers are not subject to performance reviews, as they should be. Our government should immediately make performance reviews mandatory for all teachers across Canada/
Today, almost every working adult has an annual review. Teachers can have a profound affect on a student's emotional well-being and future success in their professional life. Why are teachers not being evaluated each year like most professional adults?

This site is an embarrassment to its founders and the education system. How can a site be granted the freedom to disrespect the teaching profession an all the men and women who work so hard, day in and out to educate students? The site contributes to a culture of devaluing education and teachers. What an absolute disgrace! I can't imagine this sort of disrespect of teachers in educationally advanced countries who put us to shame. Very very sad.