RATING A TEACHER?

According to A. Riga (2007) all countries from around the world are in puzzle of abusing teachers by the Internet. First, students are posting videos and pictures, which are captured by them. They post spewing insults and violence on famous web sites like Face book, You Tube. Second, sometimes it can be happen to an innocent teacher. They are linked with certain issues and they have to bear all these damages, split. Last, this kind of web site may affect a student’s career very badly. It should be prohibited for school.

In this today’s advanced world everyone is free to do what he or she wants. There is freedom in many more ways than before. In this world, we get many facilities in everything with new technology. More usage of technology will create problems sometimes. Technology misuse will increase. There are always two sides of the coin; like that there are positive and negative points of rating teachers by Internet.

First, students misuse their rights. Students capture videos and pictures to abuse their teacher. Write inappropriate words for them, insult them and post that all bad stuff on popular site like Face book, You Tube. ? A. Riga (2007) mentioned “11 students were suspended from a high school in caledon, northeast of Toronto, for sexually explicit, derogatory postings about principal a online.” (para. 3 ). When first time I heard about this site, I was surprised that this could be happened. In my country, we give so much of respect to our teacher, even though he or she might not deserved it. We believe that teacher is divine person. He or she is the medium of knowledge for you.

Second, there are many bad things that are posted. For this part I have done one review. I asked many teachers of mine about this kind of site and they all had the same opinion that there are facts on this site too. One teacher said that she had experienced this fact in choosing her new job outside of country. She read correct information about her new place of job. We can see that by reading 100 people’s opinion about one particular teacher, it makes you think that something was wrong with the teacher, not with the students that posted that article or any stuff. I believe that it is one way to tell good things about your teachers as well as to criticize them, but when he or she is really wrong in some way, but I think that before posting something wrong against him or her, we should tell them that they are wrong in some particular way. So we can get some in between way.

Third, we should ban this kind of site in some area or to get way to come out of this kind of problem. We can make it compulsory for every student that to write something that is their opinion, so it can decrease in some area; because there is not always bad students who write impropriate stuff about their teacher, there are some good students too. This kind of site spoils student’s career, because the bad students are always interested in speaking or writing wrong things about others especially about their teacher. So if the government takes some legal step to prohibit this site in certain areas like in schools or to fix some rules or norms for that, so it will not create that much of a problem.

Last, I would like to conclude that students misuse their rights; there are many facts that are posted, and we should ban this kind of site in some area or to get a way to come out of this kind of problem. Everyone has written about doing what he or she wants but there should be some parameters. You can write for your teachers by Internet with the good things about them and it should be controlled in some way.

References

Riga, A. (2007, August 6). Cyberbullying: schools are fighting back; trying to stem tide of online threats, insults and secret videos targeting teachers and staff. The Gazette (Montreal). Retrieved March 21, 2008, from LexisNexis Database.