Dinner and teacher evaluations.
I’ll be sitting with folks I’m meeting for the first time. Maybe over dinner.
“So, Fred. What do you do?”
“I’m a K-5 Art teacher.”
There will be a smile, a nod and, “Oh! That must be fun.” And that will be the end of that conversation. We will both feel a little awkward and move on to sports, movies or the latest developments with Don and Peggy on Mad Men.
Things have changed.
Now when people find out I’m a teacher they want to talk about teacher evaluations and why more bad teachers
