Removal of the Teacher rank

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I've had a good think about it and I've changed tune. I can't say I agree with the decision. Yes, there are problems but just getting rid of it isn't the way to fix problems. If the community aren't helping because there are teachers, make it clear that it's not just teachers who are there to teach others. Get rid of the teachers who aren't doing a good job or are clearly just there for the benefits it brings. I have to side with Jan to some extent with this one. Lots of bad decisions were made and not much change up to when I left. Not saying attempts weren't made but not much was done. We lost the ability to comment on applications which created a disconnect between the staff and teachers in my eyes and the loss of public commenting on applications created a disconnect between the community and the staff team. Having the applications public also meant that people didn't think that you had to be teacher to help people as you'd need to help people already for you to get support. More and more was taken from the teacher team and then more and more regulation put on them. It was better when there was less regulation and more open.

Yes, there were problems. What of it? Fix the problem and get on with it. Don't abandon ship at the first sign of a leak.

Mint out.

Not the first sign of a leak, the usefulness of the teacher team has been debated since me and you were teacher and the only difference between then and now is that then there were atleast a few people on the teacher team who did a semi-decent job and actually had an impact on peoples experience where now most I've spoken to either say the teachers recently have done fuck-all, not enough or they haven't even met them.