High schools should add students to the teacher evaluation system.

I can see that you mean business.I will use the following arguments supporting the con side:Students have many different ranges of what they expect in a teacher. There need to be qualifications and standards that the students are giving. No group of students can learn their best all in the same way. This would vary would one student would see as good from another students expectations. On student evaluations, one student would give a completely different review due to their personal expectations than another student. The reason that there is a huge gap between what students expect and what they get is because they all expect something different.1) A survey of over 200 students various my previous point. The students were asked to choose their top 3 choices of teacher characteristics. The number of positive responses on all 15 characteristics ranged from 100 to 14 (2). If the students can't even agree what they would enjoy to have in a teacher, there is no possible way they would come to an agreement on what kind of evaluation to give the teacher. I will go into further depth on this issue later on.There need to be qualifications for the students to have the right standard for evaluating the teachers. One does simply throw a referee into a game without teaching him the rules of the game. Every experienced soccer player knows basic principles about the game, but they aren't qualified to know when to call a direct free kick, indirect free kick, give a yellow or red card, or even the standards that the fields should be before the players should step foot on it. This is the same with the students. They have a general idea of what goes into teaching, but they don't know the purpose behind different teaching styles or practices. They don't understand the full extent of the standards of a teachers set by the leadership in the school. Therefore, they cannot be qualified to give a proper evaluation of the teacher without being educated themselves on what a qualified teacher is (1).A system with students added would not be accurate. This is simple logic. Biases are a big problem in this point. Some students may like the teacher while others completely despise the teacher. The students would evaluate the teacher based off their own personal preference. Some students would simply want to get rid of a teacher for multiple reasons that wouldn't make a teacher bad. They may not like how much homework they give, the format of their tests and quizzes, the style that they speak in, or even how strict they are. All of these factors, in addition to not having the right qualifications to give a proper evaluation, could go into why an evaluation could be inaccurate.It is inevitable that students will expect something that the teacher will not meet. Some students couldn't care less if the teachers socialized with them at all. They would rather be left alone. Other students would prefer that the teachers did often have little chats with them here and there to build some kind of relationship(2). In larger schools, it would be extremely hard to do this for every student in their classroom when they have an average of 23 to 24 students per classroom and multiple classes during the day (3). Most high schools teachers teach a range of six to nine classes during the day (4). This means that each teacher sees between 138 to 216 students each day. It isn't plausible that every student's individual expectations of this one teacher would ever be fully met. There would be inconsistent evaluations on the teacher because of this issue. The current system is the most effective way to evaluate teachers. Adding students to the teacher evaluation system would not make it any better than it currently is. It would only add more variables and more opportunities for inaccuracy in the evaluations. The current system limits such variables where it uses test scores and qualified personnel such as the principle. The current system would be better because the leaders of the school are setting the standards for the teachers. If the students set the standard, it would be significantly lower than the leaders of the school. "To have an effective teacher evaluation system, you need good, trained evaluators and more time from teachers and administrators to discuss performance and improve teaching and learning" (5). The students are not trained and do not have the qualifications of a true evaluation. 1) As for test scores, they are reliable to give evaluations on students because they measure teacher "effectiveness on the basis of student outcomes, as opposed to teacher inputs" (6). It matches student achievement with teacher effectiveness (6). Since teachers cannot control each student's score on standardized test, this is a reliable way of evaluating teachers.Therefore, high school students should not be added to the teacher evaluation system for the reasons I presented above. Sources:(1) http://njmonthly.com......(2) http://www.cedu.niu.edu......(3) http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org......(4) http://www2.ed.gov......(5) http://www.ed.gov......(6) http://files.eric.ed.gov......Thank you also debatability. Good luck to you too!