[TheForge] test?

[Andrew Vida]

Aaron Silver wrote:
> 
> At 09:58 AM 2/6/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >    Students should do reviews of teachers twice a year, yeah, you'll
> >get reviews with vendettas, those should be easy to pick out. But
> >large numbers of poor reviews of any one teacher should be
> >investigated, teachers are too unaccountable.
> 
> Unfortunately the true merit of a teacher may not be felt for a period of
> time afterwards. I remember a few teachers that were not my favorites in
> High School, but who I look back on years later and realize they were among
> the best I had. Why? Not because they made me want to come to class each
> day, but because they held me to standards that I had to stretch to reach.
> They were among the teachers everyone dreaded getting in high school. If
> they were ranked by students, they would have been out long before I ever
> reached their classrooms. And if they had been removed, my education would
> be lacking even more than it was when I graduated.

	Agreed and well stated.  I didn't find out until I was out of
	teaching a good 5 years that my student's thought I was one of
	the best teachers they ever had.  At the time they seemed to
	want to toss me from the thrid floor windows at times.