French court says site cannot grade teachers

Note2be.com, which launched in January, was trying to follow the example of successful U.S. sites that let students rate their teachers.

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[sanenazok]

Having visted France

During a visit to France I saw many occasions of people yelling and hitting one another during the most mundane of discussions - all in PUBLIC. For example, couple arguing over sugar in coffee in a cafe. So I can see how allowing any sort of discussion is incitement to public disorder. Best to keep any sort of criticism under raps, that's the French way. Just have a revolution every so many years...

[PzkwVIb]

Really stupid decision

I wonder if the French Better Business Bureau is similarly hamstrung. Can biz-rate.com do business in France?

Will Michelin need to stop giving out stars to French restaurants? After all comparing them would be bad, right?

[brianh59]

crazy

This decision goes directly against every principle upon which free society rests. If there is any group of people that should be most open to public scrutiny, it should be the group that has the greatest influence on the beliefs of the next generation.

[Sea of Cortez]

Excellent decision as EVIDENT by how little US Dollar is vs Euro

To those who think this decision by French court is wrong, just take a look at how worthless US Dollar has become vs Euro, which indicates that European economies/nations are doing vastly better than US economy/nation and thus realize that European model is so much better than the US model and that very likely this decision by the French court is YET one more right decision by Europeans compared to the Stupid way things are done here in US which has resulted in US economy to be in near total collapse compared to European economies as evident by US Dollar than has fallen an amazing 50%, and going lower, vs Euro.

[PzkwVIb]

How does the relative

health of an economy relate to the ability to rate teachers online. Go back and retake your critical thinking class. You must have been asleep.