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Because teachers are not paid directly by you, like with those other professionals. You are not employing us. We provide a service to our communities, not a luxury good that you are personally seeking out and paying for. You are not comparing teachers to decide which one to hire, which is ostensibly the purpose of other reviews.

Honestly, I don't care if you post personal attacks about teachers online. Go for it! Know that it is classless and weird and do what you want. Teachers, though, will absolutely hear about it from other parents etc. who you are friends with. We will inform our administrators and our coworkers. And we will conduct ourselves with you accordingly in the future-I would certainly never go out of my way for a parent that was gossiping about me or any of my colleagues like that. I don't need that energy in my life. [/quote]

That's an interesting thought. Perhaps we should let parents request teachers based on the reviews of other parents.  We could actually do where I grew up, in the days before the internet as we know it. They obviously couldn't guarantee placement (you could identify two), but it seemed like it worked out most of the time. I know a lot of families didn't put in teacher requests.

My mom was a teacher in the same school. It's not so much that she had a preference for a particular teacher as much as there was always one or two teachers per grade she didn't want me to have.[/quote]

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