Rating teachers ok in Germany

Citing free-speech law, a German district court ruled that rating teachers on the Web is not illegal. The court overturned a temporary injunction that would have forced the operators of the site Spickmich [something like "your cheat sheet" in German] to prevent a female teacher from being graded by pupils online," Heise Online reports. Students had given her "an overall grade of 4.3" on a scale of 1 to 6." Spickmich.de is run by three university students, who had appealed the injunction. US-based examples of this kind of site include RateMyTeachers.com and RateMyProfessors.com.