--- On Sun, 6/14/09, NANCY <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alex made it quite clear on his new Blog that the same
> rules would apply as those of Tango-L.
It isn't clear. To some people, "they suck" is constructive criticism.
Instead of information-laden, it's emotion-laden. The wording on Tango-L is
much clearer.
If you can
> create an alias then why not anonymous?
Because other people in the community could call out people who don't even
exist in their community. If someone signed herself Anastasha and I know that
Anastasha doesn't exist in my community, then I think it's fair for me to let
people know that and to bring Anastasha's post into question. What if the
critic is a rival teacher? I think it would be fair to post that info, too.
The other side of this is wouldn't it be a good resource for teachers to learn
what they're doing right or wrong? Who's gonna' take anonymous comments
seriously? I wouldn't.
Especially if
> one lives in the same community as the teacher( and who
> would know better about the quality of the teaching?),
> anonymity lends some protection to the critic.
If someone in my community doesn't like the way I teach, I have several
options. I could try to find out more info from the critic to make my teaching
better. Or I could ignore the critic. I could also criticize the critic's own
dancing and figure out whether how much merit this person has. But everything
is also transparent, so if I act badly toward this person, then everyone can
say "well, Trini is just mad because Anastasha won't a bad review of her on
Alex's blog". And what's to keep Anastasha from writing even worse things on
the blog. The critic really doesn't need anymore protection.
The other way of evaluating teachers but allowing anonymity would be through
standardized evalutions similar to what they use in college to rate teachers.
Information is pooled. Some comments are shared.
Trini de Pittsburgh
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