This BBC article says “a useless piece of garbage who wouldn’t know chemistry if it ran him over…” “She spends all our lessons on her mobile texting her boyfriend…” “I didn’t like her as a teacher… she had a weird smell of vodka to her.” (Anonymous posts on ratemyteachers.co.uk) Teachers have always had to put up with personal jibes from kids. Until very recently, however, malicious gossip and snide remarks have mostly been confined to the corridors or lunch queues. But now with the explosion of websites like ratemyteachers.co.uk and bebo.com, teachers are suddenly finding themselves mocked in cyberspace, resulting in plunging morale and even threats to quit the profession”.Further,”Rate My Teachers, which was founded in the US five years ago, is growing in popularity in the UK.The UK version of the site now features 454,000 ratings for 95,000 teachers at over 5,600 schools”.

Teachers ‘bullied by online grading’