Ethical Dilemma: Publishing Teacher Evaluation Results

Education News

The newspaper I used to report for published stories about people when they did really amazing things, and published stories about people when they broke the law. We never published stories about people who simply did their jobs, regardless of whether or not an arbitrarily and irrelevant test determined that they were “ineffective.”

It is highly unethical for the Los Angeles Times to publicly disseminate information that should be a private personnel matter. This counts as cruel and unusually punishment of people who have done nothing but put their heads down and work as hard as they can to make a positive difference in the lives of our nation’s children.

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About the author 

Michelle Boyd Waters, M.Ed.

Michelle taught secondary ELA in public schools for 10 years. She served as an award-winning journalist before transitioning into education and is now Assistant Director of the OU Writing Center and a teacher consultant for the Oklahoma Writing Project. Michelle co-edited the Oklahoma English Journal for five years. She is a PhD candidate in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum at the University of Oklahoma. She started reThink ELA LLC as a teacher blog in 2012.

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