So what IS a fair evaluation system for teachers?

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5. I'm Finnish

There's been no major reformation for a long time, but lot of constant gradual change. Some for better, some for worse.

Teachers in primary schools are not much evaluated bureaucratically from top down. There are professional supervisors who sit in the class and follow the lesson. Evaluation in high schools is much based on feedback from students (student's fill evaluation forms anonymously which teachers collect, look at and then pass the feedback to other officials. The evaluation system is based on constructive criticism so that teachers can learn from experience and do their job better. Not numeric measurements.

Teachers have usually double degree, from their field of interest (humanities, sciences etc.) and from education science. Teachers who specialize in primary schools where they teach all the subjects to a class can have degree from only education science, special degree for class teacher.

I lived many years in most 'multicultural' part of Finland, an eastern suburb of Helsinki. No big problems, except that City wanted to build that part too big too fast and destroy forests we liked and wanted to preserve. Our community fought the city and got also victories of saving a forest from building. It was a tough fight and all means were used including shamanism.