Rate My Teacher

This used to be a site where students could help, support, and inform each other. Freedom of speech used to be a thing. Now this site is a piece of crap.

The old website did look dated but it was extremely easy to navigate. Now it takes double the length to search up your school. The only positive about the new website is that the art looks nice...? The main feature of the website that got it so popular was comments in the reviews for teachers. This gave students and parents a voice and the opportunity to give their opinions on the teachers. Even though there was the extremely offensive and rude comments, as what every single website with the option to comment has, most comments genuinely had peoples feelings in them. It was helpful.

But how is the website now, after the redesign? Horrible. Everything, and I mean everything is gone. Those old records of teachers and reviews? Gone (Literally the old website had every teacher listed in my school, but now only 3 show up). The easy-to-navigate style the old website had? Gone. This is not the same ratemyteachers website. The new review system is extremely safe and inoffensive. People don't have a voice now, everything is censored, and some teachers can now relax knowing that their lackluster teaching cannot be called out on anymore. I sincerely hope they are happy now. This website is destroyed.

They ask for so much personal data, it's ridiculous. Also so annoying to navigate on. Terrible website.

We used to be able to give our opinions of teachers and we used to be able to see if certain teachers were bad choices. Even if there were some students that made terrible comments, we'd just ignore them and be on our way with our happy little reviews of the teachers we're gonna pick for our courses. Now, this website is absolutely useless due to the fact that they basically erased their entire database of reviews, and due to the fact that we can't see other people's comments on them. At first, they made the terrible decision to remove the teacher's power to comment. Teachers then couldn't respond to constructive criticism OR wrongful criticism. Then, there were students that publicly shamed teachers by taking advantage of that. Good job RMT! Instead of requiring an account to review teachers and to comment and instead of banning those accounts that were verbally abusing teachers, they completely removed all reviews because they couldn't make a better decision sooner! This website used to have some good and some bad. But, in the end, this whole website turned into a dumpster fire because of one terribly late but also terrible decision.

Also, even if people start making reviews and it comes back to life, their attempt at removing biased reviews turned into a forced set of specific questions that you'd answer. What is this, censorship? Even if your reviews come back, no one's going to know any useful details about the teacher.

For crying out loud, even the teacher search bar disappears at times. The revamped website has terrible design, the old one was old but still very well made and compact. I think the business decision behind revamping the website was because they didn't see that they already had something great, they just needed to put extra effort to find a solution to bad students saying bad things. Now it looks like the front page was a pre-made website from a free website-making service. Good job guys, this website is terrible now.

This website is a disgrace. It is devastating to good teachers to have their names slandered online by students anonymously. If they think the teacher is so bad why don't they face them. It shows exactly what kind of students they are. It seems to me that only the ones who have negative things to say use your website. My good students are appalled at these others who are unable to face the fact that they are responsible if they don't get what they should out of a class. I try very hard to help my students succeed. My record stands for itself. In the four years that I have worked at the college I have only had four students that did not succeed in passing their exit exams.
These students who write this slander about me are not even able to pass their college entrance exams. If it wasn't for classes like mine, they wouldn't even be able to be in college at all? Most of these students have no background in what to expect from college. Where do they get the right to abuse teachers. How can a student decide that a teacher with 26 years of experience and a Masters Degree doesn't know what they are talking about? I find it totally insulting and a disgrace.