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If students weren't locked into schools enrollment levels and parent feedback would provide a lot of information.
by ewanmcteagle 16y ago
If students weren't locked into schools enrollment levels and parent feedback would provide a lot of information.
- ktsmith 16y agoParent feedback isn't worth nearly as much as you might think. Parents aren't in the classroom, they tend to get one side of things (their child's). Some parent's are objective and some aren't. This leads to plenty of horror stories about parents that assume all teachers are morons and their children are infallible, I've seen it first hand and it's really pathetic. The flip side of that would be the parents of my wife's former students. She has been teaching in poor neighborhoods and a significant percentage of the parents are illiterate. While these parent's are very happy with my wife and they request all their children (and cousins etc) have her, using their feedback to rate my wife as a teacher would be seriously flawed as they really don't have the ability to judge if the teaching is effective at all.