Teachers are arguably the foundation of our society. They are the people who educate the masses, and it's important that they do a good job, because we all want to belong to a smart, educated population.

All throughout elementary, middle, high school, and college, we are graded on our performance in the class. But doesn't our performance in the class reflect the teacher's ability to teach it to the student correctly?

Now, we've all had that one teacher that literally doesn't teach anything relevant, and then when the test is handed out, it's complete gibberish to the student. I had to deal with this a lot in school. The problem wasn't that I wasn't paying attention or that I wasn't understanding. There would be classes where I would sit there, focusing as hard as I possibly could to make sure I don't miss a beat. I made meticulously detailed notes and study guides, just so I could pass the next test, but to no avail.

In my high school, we were able to "rate" our teachers in an anonymous biannual survey. This was undeniably the biggest joke to me. We would sit there and rate our teachers on different areas of their responsibility as a teacher, such as how did this teacher get their point across, do they use all the materials they are provided with and do they keep the class engaged the whole time? Of course, these are logical questions to which I'd be happy to answer with total honesty -- if the teachers even read them.

The survey results would go out to the teachers' inboxes to which they most likely would leave in the inbox just as fast as it came in. I would put time and effort into rating these teachers with respect and honesty, only to see no change whatsoever. And it's not like I was the only one with these issues. It was known school-wide that certain teachers would fail you without a care in the world. These teachers didn't care about educating the youth, they cared about making money, which is understandable to an extent, but at least do your job correctly.

Rate My Professor is also another issue that I believe is completely ridiculous. The only people going on Rate My Professor are people who either had a fantastic experience or a horrendous one. It's usually the latter. And it's not like these professors actually read their reviews anyway, and if they do, do you actually think they take to heart the angry ramblings of a heated college student?

Of course, the other side of this is that there are teachers who truly care about educating the youth and about their students individually. Just as I've had terrible teachers, I've had phenomenal ones, too. So, please don't mistake this as a bashing of every teacher in America.

I firmly believe we should be able to anonymously grade our teachers, to an extent. And I firmly believe that it should be enforced that these teachers take into consideration the feedback that they receive. If grading our teachers was put into effect, I highly doubt most of the students would just write hateful comments for the sake of it, especially if these teachers were truly taking it to heart. Most students would give their honest, yet anonymous, opinion to better their learning experience.

Just because we are children does not mean we are dumb. We are fully capable of forming our own opinions, and I think that in order to have a healthy, productive classroom setting, there needs to be complete and total communication both ways, from the student and from the teacher.