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TeacherReviews.com Forced Offline
MrCawfee writes "Dylan Greene's site Teacher Reviews which allows students to post reviews of their professors. The site was taken down because a professor complained about comments made against him, and threatened to sue. Here is an exerpt from his blog: 'Yesterday and tonight I talked with a professor who was extremely upset with what written about him on TeacherReviews. He had several inappropriate reviews that made unfounded accusations and inappropriate untruthful remarks such as calling him "Bipolar Paranoid Schitzophrenic."' You can read his blog here."
Here's one[ratemyteachers.com]
And moderators: I posted this first... before you mod down for redundant, check the times of posting.
Esoteric reference.
It is also possible, and not uncommon, for a prof to fail a student that he does not personally like (due to differences in politics, for instance, leftist profs at every college I have heard of are FAMOUS for this).
It is only fair that such a student have a method of retaliation for such action. Fair is fair, and profs that don't deserve tenure should have it stripped from them and learn the phrase "Would you like fries with that?"
This website that has been shut down is the very same Free Speech that the Liberal Profs SCREAM about when it gets stiffled in the context of suppressing their marxist views.
Different when the shoe is on the other foot, huh?
Of course UC Berkley is the most Marxist of the Marxist universities, so I probably should have put this response on a different thread....
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
danoatvulaw sleeps with dead animals.
" Is it Ok for a liberal or marxist prof to fail a student just because he's conservative? "
No it's not. Not that you could ever prove such a thing. Chances are if the professor is a liberal and the student a conservative the student will be bellligerent and argumentititive. I don't know about you but I never got a good grade from a professor I argued constantly with.
Besides which you are making a moot point. Tow wrongs don't make a right. It's wrong to give a student a bad grade because he is a conservative and it's wrong to get a teacher fired because he is a liberal.
"They should be happy that students have this method of attempting to find justice. Take away legal means, and you're likely to walk out to your car after a marxist rally to get brained by a 15 lb sledgehammer from a former student who had no other means to right the wrong done him."
I am sure this has happened and I am sure it will happen again. Abortion doctors get shot, gays get crucified, blacks get dragged behind pickup trucks, planned parenthoods get bombed, black churches get burned.
Republican tend to resort to violence early and often. Apparently they have a ready recruit in you. I am sure you will enjoy your your first maiming immensely but you should probably just kill the guy so he does not get to testify against you in court.
War is necrophilia.
"There is a movement to have some fairness in hiring and tenure for both sides of the political spectrum. 99% of professors self identify as liberal."
If you start your argument with a lie then you can not expect people to take you seriously. 99% of all professors are not liberal. You are a liar.
"Socialists and marxists dominate many compuses. "
Again another lie. You are probably saying this because you believe that anybody who disagrees with you is a socialist or a marxist. In that case then it's true campuses are dominated by people who disagree with you.
"Have both view points represented."
Take a business course.
"Further, many professors will not accept any viewpoints other than their own. "
Especially republican professors.
"Take a poly sci class, and try to argue the conservative viewpoint, and you get an F."
Take a physics class and try to argue with your professor and you get an F.
War is necrophilia.
suppose that someone started a "Rate-A-Student" web site, where professors could post messages anonymously
When you (a professor) start paying me (a student) to attend your lectures, by all means.
Rememeber who's paying your salary. I have a right to publicly complain about services rendered in exchange for money. Feel free to open a retail outlet where you publish details about annoying customers, and see how long you stay in business.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.