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"Evaluation of teachers" is currently being considered by the U.S and Korea. For qualitative educations, people think teachers should be graded and paid according to the result. However, in my opinion, it has its inherent problems since students could not be objective observers, in fact, subjective observers. Moreover, it might destroy communications between students and teachers.
When students are asked to grade their teachers, they will be not able to do it objectively. In Korean proverb, "teenagers are leaves hit by strong wind", describe what stage of life that teenagers are in. They are full of confusions and curiosities and they relatively have fewer abilities to think rationally since they put more importance on fun and entertainments. Thus, they tend to think they are having a quality of education when the class in 'fun'. Even though teachers might not have enough capacities to give an education, if the class is entertaining, they simply believe they are hearing good lectures. Because of the tendency, it might be useless to let students evaluate their teachers.
Moreover, genuine interaction between students and teachers will be disappeared. When students are allowed to assess their teachers, they will see teachers as a 'subject' to grade, not a person who gives life-long teachings. Also, for teachers, they will see students as a strict 'grader' not a teenager whom they have to teach. For example, in some schools in Korea, students were led to grade teachers to encourage them to improve their teaching skills. Even though, the skills surely had been advanced, there was no love among students and teachers. Teachers expressed their discontent of their low scores to students who did not give them high scores. The system not only made students as subjects to get blame of teachers, but teachers themselves had to compete with one another to gain higher scores. Obviously, humanitarian values had been faded away from their mind. Therefore, I believe students should not have rights to grade their teachers.
In conclusion, since evaluating teachers could not be done objectively and collapse communications between students and teachers, it should be discouraged. I firmly think schools is not a place solely for an education, it is a place where students know how to love.
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