Rate My Teacher

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

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.

Such a joke they are naming a field after this psycho (attacked students physically and verbally for years). The field should be named "Roger Reynolds field" - the coach of Senior Football team who actually won championships and was a patient and considerate teacher. Bruce "coached" the useless junior football team.

This site died the day they took out to activity feed. (Teacher A rated 1 day ago, teacher B rated 2 days ago)
Killed all momentum it had and its never been the same. Combined with the censorship, its completely worthless these days.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Instead of creating comment guidelines that would ban all written reviews that cross the line, the site has now completely banned all written reviews. As someone with anxiety, I heavily relied on the written reviews to prepare for any teachers that are anything less than... let's just say "polite." Now it's all gone... makes you wonder if the teachers who were offended by their complaints DESERVED the complaints they got.

It used to let teachers and parents write comments, but now they just allow students to comment. The majority of these students are the disgruntled ones, that don't do their homework, turn in late assignments, blame their teachers for bad grades, and complain if they are challenged. The site is public shaming wall and hurtful for the teaching profession.

As a student I loved going to this website to see silly reviews of kids who were A. Going after a teacher who is bad enough they should be fired or B. Unreasonably angry at a teacher whose class they failed. However I was very disappointed to see how much the site has changed due to enough teachers (either in denial of their failure or actually devastated) complaining and having the comments removed entirely.

I loved looking at the funny comments but also liked reading the serious criticism of teachers who sucked. I had a lot of sucky teachers and many of the serious reviews were true and pointed out SERIOUS flaws in our education system. But many of the teachers are sensitive and can't take a joke so it changed and now there are like no reviews and it kinda sucks.

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)...

Rate My Teacher used to be amazing. But now that they removed commenting, it doesn't make sense to even bother looking at the reviews of any of the teachers. Commenting allowed me to really understand what the teachers were like since comments were coming directly from the students. But now, it doesn't even help.

I used to be an avid user of ratemyteacher, but after they removed the comment part of the review, it is nothing but a disappointment. This truly is a tragedy, and shows what our world is becoming. This blatant censorship is not only unfortunate, it is also quite frightening to me.

They allow for unsubstantiated slander against teachers that may have been written by those with a hidden agenda and may not really be students. The site callously allows for detrimental statements to be made that can impede with a teacher's ability to earn a living. Shame on the owners of this site!

An emotionally disturbed student wrote disgusting, vile comments about me and they were on this website for six months before I discovered them and contacted the site. I was so shaken by these comments, that ended with the suggestion that someone rape me, that I felt unsafe in my classroom. I don't believe that our Constitution was ever intended to protect online bullies.

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.

One of the most defamatory websites around. Google should ban this site from being displayed

The students who are happy with their grades don't post on it, it's always students who are doing nothing in the class are failing and want to 'revenge' the teacher are the ones who post on this with comments that have nothing to do with topics or material covered by a teacher but usually comments about the teacher being old or fat, etc... just personal attacks... this site needs to be removed asap!

A site for disgruntled adolescents to badmouth teachers? Some say hateful things and it is not censored nor deleted. SHAME on this site.The well adjusted good students often dont post. They are doing their work... Imagine if teachers posted on RatemyStudents?... there would be outrage!

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