RESOLVED: Public schools should use student-based teacher evaluations in teacher quality assessments.

RESOLVED: Public schools should use student-based teacher evaluations in teacher quality assessments.

PRO

Argument 1 Why kids can and should evaluate their teachers
 Students are best placed to assess their teachers because those students are the ones who experience teacher’s teaching style everyday in their classes. It is not the school board who actually sticks around with the teachers every time whether, it is students who learn and engage with the teaching styles that each teachers promotes. Students deserve good education, and the best that they can get. They are the ones who receive benefits and harms from the teacher’s teaching method since they are the ones who actually go to the universities, not teachers and parents. Schools also have great amount of responsibility to provide the best education that they can afford to their students. By implementing this policy, students will be able to judge and receive the type of teaching that they wanted to receive.To evaluate their teachers, students necessarily does not have to be mature and know what kind of teachers are bad or not. They just need to understand for themselves what works or not, and whether they understand what the teachers say to them in class well or not. Therefore, our side of the house believes that students should be allowed to evaluate their teachers to maintain their own responsibility of managing the type of education that they want to receive from their teachers and to benefit from them.

  CON

  Argument 1. Why this policy cannot be effective
Students do not have intellectual ability to judge their teachers whether they are good or not students of schooling age (teenagers and children) are immature since they are young (aged 3-19) they lack emotional maturity and intellectual capacity to understand it is your (student) capacity to stand outside of your self your ability to view yourself from an objective standpoint ex) is it because teacher is bad or is it because you yourself are not trying the hardest in class and that is why teacher is strict on you? if the teacher was an objectively bad teacher, taught poorly, boring, and did not understand what the students needed, than in that case, their dislike of the class is actually justified. but because the kids does not have the capacity to stand outside of themselves and view themselves objectively, this means that therefore, they can’t really tell they dislike the class because their teacher is a poor teacher or teachers are strict on them because they are not trying their best in classes you cannot choose to hire and fire somebody based on student’s unreliable feedbacks. whether their teachers are good or not what are the qualities and criteria that determines a good teacher how well is their teacher doing to meet the criteria of being a good teacher therefore, their assessments are mostly unreliable and unjustifiable. and discolored by personal feelings students cannot be trusted to make reliable and accurate decisions firstly because they are immature secondly because those students are under the period of teen angst so they are generally angry and they are prone to become sensitive so, any type of criticism that might just be a natural part of regular teaching can very possibly be taken personally, as an attack against themselves abuse of power so because they are generally untrustworthy, we should not give them this power to judge their teacher and determine whether the school should extend the contract with teachers

Argument 2. Why this policy will actively harm the classroom environment

This policy creates distrust between teachers and students because of the fact that the reports are anonymous why this will harm the classroom environment / creates distrust between teachers and students reports must be anonymous to allow students to be honest without being penalized for it and teachers must read those anonymous judgments of their performance, in order to gain better insight and improve their work the problem of anonymity is that it allows students the ability to be vicious and ruthless in their comments, without fear of the consequences, and thus may be even be aggressive and rude in an unwarranted way considering how kids are likely to say mean things in general, because they are immature and have not yet developed a sufficient sense of social decorum, the reports will likely be unjustly rude and unpleasant reading such reports by students will cause teachers to be turned off by them, and may even brew in teachers a feeling of distrust and antagonism toward students especially made worse because of the element of anonymity, because the teachers don’t have a specific target upon which to target their feelings of anger and distrust, but feel a general sense of doubt and suspicion toward all students.