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#12439 17-Mar-2007 11:57

I was just looking throught he web, and found this site. It looks really interesting, give our opinions on the people who offer us our future, lol. I was just wondering if anyone else had been on it or herd of it?

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#64022 17-Mar-2007 12:11

Yes, discussed here back in June 2006. Overall impression is that is not something good, because most people wouldn't have how to defend themselves - and not even know of anything posted there. Not fun at all.

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#64024 17-Mar-2007 12:18

Crap site and it should be pulled down!!

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#64025 17-Mar-2007 12:19

But every has the chance to defend themselves, its hardly a free for all.

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#64027 17-Mar-2007 12:20

johnr: Crap site and it should be pulled down!!

Relly? Whats your reasoning behind that?

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#64030 17-Mar-2007 12:25

CommanderOne: But every has the chance to defend themselves, its hardly a free for all.

No, it's not fair at all. Not everyone has access to the Internet, and how the teachers would be notified that someone posted a false comment on the site?

Let's not go into this again...

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#64034 17-Mar-2007 12:33

CommanderOne:
johnr: Crap site and it should be pulled down!!

Relly? Whats your reasoning behind that?

Site is crap its one sided and its a waste of internet space and traffic

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#64037 17-Mar-2007 12:44

freitasm:
CommanderOne: But every has the chance to defend themselves, its hardly a free for all.

No, it's not fair at all. Not everyone has access to the Internet, and how the teachers would be notified that someone posted a false comment on the site?

Let's not go into this again...

But they have acces through their school, and the comments are filtered, so they cant be that bad...

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#64050 17-Mar-2007 13:14

What a pathetic excuse for a site. Teachers have a hard enough job without spiteful students making up rubbish about them on the internet.

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#64054 17-Mar-2007 13:28

While I agree that sniping sites are in general just plain malicious, it was interesting to see how Takapuna Grammar students supported a teacher who was the subject of a Herald hatchet job. The students thought the teacher in question was quite good and not a history revisionist nutter as the Herald story made out.

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#64058 17-Mar-2007 13:57

I don't quite see why everyone is getting so worked up. Why are teachers any different from other professions? They get reviewed, so why not teachers? Shouldn't parents know whats really going on in classrooms?

And like the guy above me said, its not all bad, in fact most of the comments are PRO teachers, not anti.

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#64059 17-Mar-2007 14:07

Because the way that they are being 'reviewed' is unfair as many teachers are not given a fair chance to rebute the 'claims' of students. The ability for teachers to respond is okish but most already have their hands full doing this thing called 'teaching', where some people just seem to be determined to pull them down because they couldn't text their mates while in English class.

Furthermore most students posting to this site probably alreay have a grief with the teacher, so it is hardly objective. ERO in comparsion is probably more objective.

Note that I haven't read the comments myself but this is the conclusion I have reached from similar sites.

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#64060 17-Mar-2007 14:10

It is in my view libelious

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#64061 17-Mar-2007 14:10

In saying that you point out you know nothing about our education system. ERO is there ONLY to review the systems put in place by the school, they DO NOT have the power to reivew individual teachers nor comment on their teaching. Only the school in general.

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#64062 17-Mar-2007 14:14

Both my parents are teachers... so I know a little bit (but don't claim to know it all) the education system and the headaches leading up to a ERO review (which happen to look at your teaching paperwork and often sit in class watching too).

If a certain teacher is exhibiting worrying signs - it is generally pointed out, and I have seen it before.

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#64063 17-Mar-2007 14:21

cokemaster: Both my parents are teachers... so I know a little bit (but don't claim to know it all) the education system and the headaches leading up to a ERO review (which happen to look at your teaching paperwork and often sit in class watching too).

If a certain teacher is exhibiting worrying signs - it is generally pointed out, and I have seen it before.

I know they do that, but that is still looking at the school in general. They have no power to do anything about teachers, just the school. And there is proof that that system doesn't work, my school is complete crap, and yet we got a sparkling review in our ERO erport. We have students leaving left right and center, an abismial pass rate, and shocking teachers, a principal who doesn't give a crap and spends most of her time out of the country, yet like I said, great ERO report.

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