Parents posting critiques of their kids’ teachers on Facebook and other social media

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tax dollars pay for public employees. If underperforming teachers are sucking up public funds, citizens need to be aware to hold the administrators accountable.

I have no problem with teachers getting reviews online on a site they will actually see (ratemyteachers, etc.)

Susie’s mom posting on Facebook does nothing to hold anyone accountable. It’s just a rant her friends can see. Much like us posting on this forum accomplished nothing except yelling into the void.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tax dollars pay for public employees. If underperforming teachers are sucking up public funds, citizens need to be aware to hold the administrators accountable.

I have no problem with teachers getting reviews online on a site they will actually see (ratemyteachers, etc.)

Susie’s mom posting on Facebook does nothing to hold anyone accountable. It’s just a rant her friends can see. Much like us posting on this forum accomplished nothing except yelling into the void.

As a parent, ive seen horrible teachers not get fired despite tons of complaints. At least on facebook you can warn and discuss with other parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tax dollars pay for public employees. If underperforming teachers are sucking up public funds, citizens need to be aware to hold the administrators accountable.

I have no problem with teachers getting reviews online on a site they will actually see (ratemyteachers, etc.)

Susie’s mom posting on Facebook does nothing to hold anyone accountable. It’s just a rant her friends can see. Much like us posting on this forum accomplished nothing except yelling into the void.

As a parent, ive seen horrible teachers not get fired despite tons of complaints. At least on facebook you can warn and discuss with other parents.

- If the teacher gets more praise in person than complaints online, the teacher in only horrible in the eyes of the parent complaining. Doesn’t equate to job loss.

- Warning and discussing a teacher on Facebook makes you look like an ass to the parents who read what you say and don’t respond. Guarantee that.

[Anonymous]

It’s tacky as hell. Imagine teachers posting rude shit about kids and parents on social. You’d rightfully flip out.

[Anonymous]

Good reasons to publicly shame a preschool, elementary, middle, or high school public school teacher:

- Physical assault on a child
- Sexual assault on a child
- Extreme verbal abuse toward a child (repeated name calling, sex, gender, racial, disability, etc

Why are these reasons good? They are completely heinous acts and are not subject to broad interpretation

Bad reasons to publicly shame/slander the above public teacher types:

- Everything else.

Here’s the rationale:

Rating professors (You personally pay thousands in a markup in personal tuition to have access to specific and specialized subject area content for a set number of hours 20-30 hours over a semester)

Rating restaurants (You personally pay a 200-400% markup to have another person cook and serve you food at and sit at a place that is not your home for a set period maybe a single hour)

Rating doctors (You personally pay or use insurance to pay a 200-4000% markup for the doctors 15-20 minute specialized consultation or review, an appointment focused on one person only)

Rating individual public school teachers (As a taxpayer, at its VERY least you receive a 90-100% DISCOUNT on access to a generalized education over 180 days @ 6.5 hours each day)

Accountability starts at home. Full Stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good reasons to publicly shame a preschool, elementary, middle, or high school public school teacher:

- Physical assault on a child
- Sexual assault on a child
- Extreme verbal abuse toward a child (repeated name calling, sex, gender, racial, disability, etc

Why are these reasons good? They are completely heinous acts and are not subject to broad interpretation

Bad reasons to publicly shame/slander the above public teacher types:

- Everything else.

Here’s the rationale:

Rating professors (You personally pay thousands in a markup in personal tuition to have access to specific and specialized subject area content for a set number of hours 20-30 hours over a semester)

Rating restaurants (You personally pay a 200-400% markup to have another person cook and serve you food at and sit at a place that is not your home for a set period maybe a single hour)

Rating doctors (You personally pay or use insurance to pay a 200-4000% markup for the doctors 15-20 minute specialized consultation or review, an appointment focused on one person only)

Rating individual public school teachers (As a taxpayer, at its VERY least you receive a 90-100% DISCOUNT on access to a generalized education over 180 days @ 6.5 hours each day)

Accountability starts at home. Full Stop.

I’d normally agree with you, but teachers have committed the, in your words, heinous act, of refusing to open school. I’m advocating that parents run a background program that records everything. This will provide some much needed accountability, and probably some social media shaming. If teachers don’t like it, they can decide to DO THEIR JOBS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good reasons to publicly shame a preschool, elementary, middle, or high school public school teacher:

- Physical assault on a child
- Sexual assault on a child
- Extreme verbal abuse toward a child (repeated name calling, sex, gender, racial, disability, etc

Why are these reasons good? They are completely heinous acts and are not subject to broad interpretation

Bad reasons to publicly shame/slander the above public teacher types:

- Everything else.

Here’s the rationale:

Rating professors (You personally pay thousands in a markup in personal tuition to have access to specific and specialized subject area content for a set number of hours 20-30 hours over a semester)

Rating restaurants (You personally pay a 200-400% markup to have another person cook and serve you food at and sit at a place that is not your home for a set period maybe a single hour)

Rating doctors (You personally pay or use insurance to pay a 200-4000% markup for the doctors 15-20 minute specialized consultation or review, an appointment focused on one person only)

Rating individual public school teachers (As a taxpayer, at its VERY least you receive a 90-100% DISCOUNT on access to a generalized education over 180 days @ 6.5 hours each day)

Accountability starts at home. Full Stop.


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I’d normally agree with you, but teachers have committed the, in your words, heinous act, of refusing to open school. I’m advocating that parents run a background program that records everything. This will provide some much needed accountability, and probably some social media shaming. If teachers don’t like it, they can decide to DO THEIR JOBS.

No they haven’t. You have no clue.

[Anonymous]

In the old days, this used to be called spreading rumors. Apparently people now see no problem with it.

I once met a dad who told me they were going to be moving out of our neighborhood because he heard some bad things about our school. I asked him where he heard them. He said Facebook. I wonder whether he ever found a school that doesn’t get bashed on Facebook.

[Anonymous]

I see a lot of parents posting that it would help them “request” a teacher as justification. I know that in my competitive school district they don’t honor any requests.

It would work both ways though-think, “Mrs. Smith sent repeated late night emails and expected an immediate response. She called me on several occasions angry about a comment that she alleged another student had made to her child at recess. Mrs. Smith was unwilling to accept that her child has been an aggressor on multiple occasions, despite several adults and students reporting that this was the case. Mrs. Smith was unable to provide a quiet environment for her child on remote learning days, and remarked that she shouldn’t be expected to do so since, “this isn’t real school”. Avoid having her daughter Charlotte in your class if at all possible. Argumentative and disinterested in being a partner with the teacher.”

If you’re willing to risk that though, fair play.

[Anonymous]

So teachers are fine with anonymous bashing on ratemyteacher.com but not on facebook. Okay!

[Anonymous]

I'll just post on ratemyteacher than link to it and ask if anyone has had a similar experience. Plausible deniability.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At this point why the heck not. We post everything else online, whether warranted or not, so why not teachers... It’s annoying and stupid and childish and entitled, but so is 99.9% of the internet.

But this is a critique of someone’s job performance online. Maybe it is because I grew up in a small town but I can’t imagine writing something negative about the way someone is performing their job on social media, except maybe a politician who is a public figure.

Actually, I think it is similar... the state mandates that you send your child to school. The school mandates that you have a particular teacher. The teacher is an agent of the government, whether they think of themselves that way or not. It is probably not a good idea while your child is in the classroom, but the system has been set up to provide parents (consumers) with no direct way to respond to poor behavior by teachers. Yes, we vote for School Board members, but even they don't engage in running the school system. So, options to "fight back against the government" are limited here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is awesome. So I get to make public reviews of the parents by name too?

That would be amusing, but no.

Why not. If it's ok to call out teachers publicly, then you can expect that they will do the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the old days, this used to be called spreading rumors. Apparently people now see no problem with it.

I once met a dad who told me they were going to be moving out of our neighborhood because he heard some bad things about our school. I asked him where he heard them. He said Facebook. I wonder whether he ever found a school that doesn’t get bashed on Facebook.

Exactly!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What teacher really cares what a bunch of whack jobs post on Facebook? I mean, really? The only people dissing teachers on Facebook are complete losers and I hope those teachers go after them to sue for libel.

You can only win a lawsuit if what they are posting is not true. And if you bring a frivolous lawsuit, you will have to pay not only your legal fees, but the defendants legal fees.

If what they're posting is opinion then you absolutely can win. And they defendant will need to pay for the lawsuit. Nice try, though.