Perhaps because of the amazing success of My Space, there is now a new “my” website that allows you to post comments about the abilities of college professors and even say whether they’re hot or not. The website is ratemyprofessors.com. But yo, I’ve got a couple problems with said site.
One—you don’t have to put your name on the comments you leave. As far as I could tell you can’t leave your name on it unless you actually type it into the body of your comment. Which tosses this site onto the pile of things in our society that encourage people not to take responsibility for their actions. It encourages people to be cowards who degrade others and don’t ever have to own what they’ve done. Granted, there are good comments on the site too, but even then I think the professors would appreciate receiving encouragement from a person rather than a website.
Two—at least for Christians gossip isn’t something we’re supposed to strive for. This site encourages malicious gossip whether it means to or not.
I think one of the purposes of the site—to let people see what other students thought of teachers so they could pick the best ones—is a good idea, but the anonymity makes is whack.
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for having just finished teachign this week, I will say that it is the encouragement that students gave me in person that I will remember, not that which is posted on that site...
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