In the beginning

there was a Has Been Satisfactory Box and Has Not Been Satisfactory Box.

 To determine which would be marked, the principal would visit your classroom twice a year for an observation. One formal and one informal. If the principal observed signs that the teacher had an active pulse and determined that students would likely leave the classroom physically unscathed, the teacher would receive a satisfactory rating. I can remember getting satisfactory ratings and thinking, 'That's it? I'm satisfactory?' So, yeah. The system needed some work. Apparently very serious work as one can tell from Governor Gregoire's very serious expression. 

But did it need this much serious work? 

I now have to find 67 instances of me performing my job in a Proficient or Distinguished manner. Oh, and there's Basic as well, except you hope not to find those, because too many in two consecutive years will cost you your job. This is what we were bluntly told at our August inservice. Go get 'em team!