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OT - legal ramifications of web pages
I'm going to my second to last class of that British literature class
I've told y'all about tonight. This is the one where the teacher makes wild assertions about word etymologies and carbon dating, presents them as fact, reads my polite corrections or requests for primary sources in email, doesn't answer my email and then repeats the assertions. It is almost as though she's challenging me to bring it up in class, but I don't because I don't believe in embarrassing teachers in front of their students no matter how much they deserve it. I have other problems with this teacher besides her lack of factual information. I've learned from the school newspaper that students will not be filling out teacher evaluations this year. Apparently the evaluations were written into the contracts, and the teachers have been working without contracts. The evaluations are a negotiating point in contracts with the teachers' union (er, uh, professional association) not wanting them. All this is news to me and shows how naive I can be. I would have thought that by the time you got to teaching on the college level, you would want evaluations because good ones show you're a good teacher and everyone wants to be a good teacher. This is one more example of the way this school sees itself as being teachers and administration AGAINST the students in a sort of war, not everyone working together for better education. I'm pissed off with this teacher enough, and I have so little to lose since I'm only auditing and not going for a degree, that I've started playing with the idea of teacher evaluation website. Students would right in what they thought of their teachers. I'd have rules saying that the comments had to be true, no blatant name calling ("that bitch doesn't know what she's talking about") but true statements could be put up for all the world to see ("when asked how the wellstone could be carbon dated, 'with carbon' was the impatient reply"). Is this done at other schools? Do the teachers ever sue for defamation of character? --Lia |
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In article NN5zb.395609$HS4.3206214@attbi_s01,
Julia Altshuler wrote: Do the teachers ever sue for defamation of character? There was a website that aggregated evaluations from a bunch of different schools, and I believe they were sued more than once. Anybody can sue anybody for anything. Whether or not it holds up in court is another issue. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Bad taste is better than no taste -- Arnold Bennett |
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In article NN5zb.395609$HS4.3206214@attbi_s01,
Julia Altshuler wrote: Do the teachers ever sue for defamation of character? There was a website that aggregated evaluations from a bunch of different schools, and I believe they were sued more than once. Anybody can sue anybody for anything. Whether or not it holds up in court is another issue. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Bad taste is better than no taste -- Arnold Bennett |
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In article NN5zb.395609$HS4.3206214@attbi_s01,
Julia Altshuler wrote: Do the teachers ever sue for defamation of character? There was a website that aggregated evaluations from a bunch of different schools, and I believe they were sued more than once. Anybody can sue anybody for anything. Whether or not it holds up in court is another issue. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Bad taste is better than no taste -- Arnold Bennett |
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In article NN5zb.395609$HS4.3206214@attbi_s01,
Julia Altshuler wrote: Do the teachers ever sue for defamation of character? There was a website that aggregated evaluations from a bunch of different schools, and I believe they were sued more than once. Anybody can sue anybody for anything. Whether or not it holds up in court is another issue. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Bad taste is better than no taste -- Arnold Bennett |
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Julia Altshuler wrote: carbon dated, 'with carbon' was the impatient reply"). Is this done at other schools? Do the teachers ever sue for defamation of character? Lia, it's been done already. You might want to encourage students in your class to participate. http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/index.jsp http://www.ratingsonline.com/ http://www.profrater.com/ There are probably more of these out there. I can't remember which school it was (Cornell? Yale?), but the students got together to put out a ratings book, and it was a best seller. Suja |
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Julia Altshuler wrote: carbon dated, 'with carbon' was the impatient reply"). Is this done at other schools? Do the teachers ever sue for defamation of character? Lia, it's been done already. You might want to encourage students in your class to participate. http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/index.jsp http://www.ratingsonline.com/ http://www.profrater.com/ There are probably more of these out there. I can't remember which school it was (Cornell? Yale?), but the students got together to put out a ratings book, and it was a best seller. Suja |
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Julia Altshuler wrote: carbon dated, 'with carbon' was the impatient reply"). Is this done at other schools? Do the teachers ever sue for defamation of character? Lia, it's been done already. You might want to encourage students in your class to participate. http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/index.jsp http://www.ratingsonline.com/ http://www.profrater.com/ There are probably more of these out there. I can't remember which school it was (Cornell? Yale?), but the students got together to put out a ratings book, and it was a best seller. Suja |
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Julia Altshuler wrote: carbon dated, 'with carbon' was the impatient reply"). Is this done at other schools? Do the teachers ever sue for defamation of character? Lia, it's been done already. You might want to encourage students in your class to participate. http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/index.jsp http://www.ratingsonline.com/ http://www.profrater.com/ There are probably more of these out there. I can't remember which school it was (Cornell? Yale?), but the students got together to put out a ratings book, and it was a best seller. Suja |
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Melinda Shore wrote: Anybody can sue anybody for anything. Whether or not it holds up in court is another issue. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Bad taste is better than no taste -- Arnold Bennett Yep and unfortunately it is yet another one of those things, $$$$ talks, BS walks. If you got the money the lawyers got the time and can often do things with cases you wouldn't believe. If you don't have the $$$ don't waste your time or theirs cuz you aren't going to win in court. Gwen |
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