Aussie teachers call for Internet censorship

TEACHERS DOWN under are considering suing an American site which allows kids to review their performance.

The NSW Department of Education has blocked access to the site from all school computers but says it can't stop the site operating without declaring war on America.

Some of the teachers say that is not good enough and are considering suing the site in a US court.

The teachers are furious that the site had given children the chance to give them some performance feedback. They claim that it is defamatory.

One Sydney principal was given a score of 1.7 out of five for "overall quality", is described as rude, condescending, pompous and arrogant.

It said that the principal is a bully who does not care about the students or the school's wellbeing, but rather how it appears to the outside world.

The NSW Teachers Federation said that it is an absolute disgrace that people are anonymously able to make atrocious comments about teachers. It wants the site down and it wants to off it now.

After all, you can't have comments about a maths teacher at a Sydney school being unable to control a class or spell getting out on the net.

It ignores the fact that kids would be saying these things anyway. In my day such anonymous performance reviews were written on the walls of the local bus stop and there were never any calls for the bus shelter to be demolished.

The president of the NSW Secondary Principals Council, Jim McAlpine has called for the Federal Government to block access to "scurrilous American websites". Something that the Chinese and Iranian government would whole heartedly agree with.

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