Not Starting Off Well

Things did not go well yesterday...starting with the amount of crap I had to complete to the aide schedules to me having out with FW.  UGH!  I'm mentally exhausted already and the kids haven't even started yet.  In reality - I'm not too worried about them - it's FW and HH and at this point my sped supervisor.  In reality, she's the one I'm most disappointed in.  She has always known the shit we have to deal with when dealing with FW and HH and then yesterday, she does the one thing that we've been howling about forever! 

So in summary - as I know many (two) of you are probably confused:  FW - with the recommendation of my sped supervisor - put an incoming behavorially challenged autistic girl on my caseload.  Now, I'm all for pulling my weight and not crying about the number of kids on my caseload but when you shoulder two of us (Lisa and me) with the difficult cases because we do our job well that is NOT fair!  And I just couldn't take it anymore.  And I let FW know that the unfair distribution of students on caseloads was a load of shit and that I thought she was a poor department head who didn't stand up for us (to either HH or sped super). She tried to belittle me by telling me how disappointed she was that I would "dare" to categorize students and differentiate from an autistic kid and a kid with a learning disability.  They should all be treated the same!  EXCUSE ME!!!???  Lesson one in special ed:  Every kid is different and has different needs.  A kid who is out for all clases and doesn't even have a study hall with me?  Takes me an hour to write her IEP.  My difficult case with the needy parents?  Approximately 8 hours - with many back and forth emails to plan and collaborate.  That stupid bitch! 

In addition, the whole reprimand came up.  I told her - in essence (without using foul language) - that she sucked through that, she had abandoned me and that her ass deserved a reprimand too.  She tried to pretend that she didn't know what the hell had happened and she hadn't abandoned me but if she were a good department head, wouldn't she have followed through?  Wouldn't she have checked to see how things had faired?  A good department head would have ensure that (after I followed her advice) that I wasn't thrown to the wolves.

In end - I told her that she was a poor representative for our deparatment and that she had turned the department into one with no communication.  None of our needs within our classrooms and for our kids are taken into account.  In essence I said I knew she wouldn't do shit about the shitty shituation and she sucks.  She told me I was free to my own opinion (to which I said I'm not the only one - sorry to throw you under the bus Lisa) and then I hung up.  There was so much more to the conversation but what's the point. 

Chitty bang bang, shitty chitty bang bang

Chitty bang bang, shitty chitty bang bang

Oh you pretty chitty bang bang...

I'm out...I still have so much to do at school and need to make a list and get ready for the kids.  Later!