Should parents formally assess teachers?

[Still a Democrat]

Saw several threads about teachers maybe assessing parents - would there be some usefulness in parents assessing teachers?

[WinkyDink]

1. Links to those other "several" threads?

[sinkingfeeling]

2. No. It would be the same as having students evaluate teachers. It becomes a popularity contest.

[LiberalFighter]

3. What would be the criteria they would use to assess parents?

Or parents assessing teachers?

Unless they both see each other in action they have no legitimate basis for their assessment. Parents could only give a small slice of that assessment. Likewise the teachers.

Even with the general population assessing the President as we do with polls is not complete. The general population only knows what they hear and want to know. Some more and some less. Here on DU most of us know more of what any current President has done or not done than the general population.

[Very_Boring_Name]

4. How about teachers formally assessing parents?

I like that idea better.

[Crankie Avalon]

5. No. Because, quite frankly, some parents are not qualified to assess anything.

I was involved with the PTA of my daughter's old public high school and saw it for myself.

Assessments should be done by disinterested parties who know at least a little something about teaching. That may sound "elitist" to a certain type of person, but that's probably the same demographic that thinks "President Sarah Palin" sounds like a good idea.

[woo me with science]

6. Only if teachers start assessing parents. nt

[el_bryanto]

7. The best solution is to design a robotic assessor to tell us who's been naughty and who's been nice.

That's sure to solve our problems.

Bryant

[TicketyBoo]

8. No.

I know a lot of parents who think their precious little Johnny (or Jenny) can do no wrong, and any conflict is the teacher's fault.

Turn them loose evaluating teachers? NO WAY.

[WhiteTara]

9. only if teachers can formally assess parents

since they are the other half of the equation.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. At their risk for future defamation actions.

[Frustratedlady]

11. No. In fact, some teachers should be able to evaluate parents.

There is so much lack of guidance at home that teachers must become parents during school hours. My family is full of teachers and it is so frustrating for them to try to teach when the children come to school without sufficient clothing, breakfast or just plain love. School hours are the children's best time of the day and many of them don't want to leave. That tells you something.