Why Not Teacher Evaluations by Students?

[mbperrin]

78. Here's one. I teach seniors. Young lady spills a drink in class, so I hand her some paper towels we

keep for this sort of thing - no big deal, clean up the spill you made, all is good.

But instead, she knocks the towels from my hands, says "I'm not a f****** janitor!" and proceeds to throw four desks away from where she's standing, terrifying students who are struck by sliding desks along the floor. She then runs out, goes to the main office and tells them that I attacked her in class.

29 student statements later, which take 4 days to collect by campus security, they decide my version is accurate. She is transferred to another classroom with another teacher.

She's 18 and sincere as she can be. We should just accept her version? 29 other students who were in the room say that she was wrong and scared them. What could I have done to have prevented this? And you think she would give me a good evaluation?