She was right. Here’s the part where I COULD tell you exactly how teacher evaluations in Oakshire (and likely the rest of the country) work.

Here’s the part where I could get into the intricacies of rubrics, categories of teaching, and their weight and importance, but I’d probably just end up going into so much professional jargon that I’d lose you or bore you to tears with the minutiae.

In short, it goes like this: Imagine you’re driving down the road and a few times a year a police officer pulls you over and decides how good of a driver you are based on their gut. It doesn’t really matter if you were going the speed limit or using your turn signals or whether you were buckled in. You don’t even necessarily have to be breaking any laws, but the cop can still decide that you weren’t driving well enough.