Reply #20: The funny thing about that

[LWolf]

is that, in most cases, some parents will be very happy with a teacher that others complain about. It's unusual to have parents consistently agree about teachers.

In districts and schools that allow parents to choose teachers, some teachers will get more requests than the rest; I was one of those, when I worked in that system. Other teachers would get refusals; "don't put my kid in ____________'s class."

Those choices on the part of parents, though, were based, not on concrete info about teachers, but word of mouth. Not exactly objective.

If there were an objective way to collect feedback from parents I think that would be good information to collect for the purposes of professional growth. I don't think it would be appropriate as part of the evaluation process.