Should teacher evaluation data be made public?

[Anonymous]

The answer to the topic is NO.

Assuming that the evaluation data is accurate (and that is a big assumption), can you imagine the problems a principal would have assigning classes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will making teacher evaluations public encourage or discourage highly-qualified people from going into teaching?

Also: I am a public employee (not a teacher). My evaluations are not public.

This is America. We say we value education, but then we show rampant disrespect to teachers and basically do everything possible to ensure that highly-qualified people won't go into education.

yes

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My own children know NOT to enter education or else they'll be paying for their own college tuition.

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Brilliant minds should be shaping the youth. But there is so little respect for what we do that it's the idiot who stays these days.