January 27, 2006

A Blog Gives Professors Space to Vent About Their Students

By SARA LIPKA

Fed up with whiny, lazy students who are looking only to make the grade, some professors are striking back.

Their weapon: Rate Your Students, a blog maintained by an anonymous faculty member who collects rants from across the United States (and Canada, too), affording unnamed contributors sweet revenge on their irksome pupils.

Of "baseball-playing Darren," writes one professor in Ohio, "he's never prepared for class, and he mostly shows up so he can run his mouth into the sweet