Today our SPED higher-ups called a meeting after school (which I didn't know about ahead of time and which made me late to pick up my own kids) to tell us that the Feds are coming in to do an inspection of our SPED program in April and that we'd better get our you-know-what together ASAP.
On one hand, I welcome this, because I believe it ought to be widely known just exactly what they've done to us this year.
On the other hand, I can see exactly where this is heading. You see, I'm the low man on the totem pole (well, next to the students themselves, that is). When we Resource teachers have been unable to do progress-monitoring for each kid's IEP because WE DON'T EVER ACTUALLY SEE THE KIDS AND THEY DON'T GIVE US TIME TO GO HUNT THEM DOWN, guess who's going to catch the most heat?
Yep. Me.
It's kind-of like this: Pretend for a moment that I've been hired to supervise 30 teenagers while they scrub floors with a toothbrush. But I'm also supposed to be scrubbing floors with a toothbrush at the same time. They don't give us any toothbrushes, so I buy everyone's toothbrush AND soap. Then they don't give me access to any of the rooms where the floor needs scrubbing. THEN they tell me that those rooms will be inspected and I'd better hope they're clean. AND if they're not clean, I don't keep my job. Plus, if I don't prove that I'm spending 'X' amount of hours scrubbing floors myself after hours AND paying for the privilege of doing so, I don't keep my job. They also frequently take me away from my hallway to supervise some other group, leaving mine unattended. I'm also responsible to keep meticulous records of what percentage of each day each teenager spends scrubbing with different types of toothbrushes and soap (nevermind that, yet again, I never actually get to supervise these teenagers doing so). The Inspectors will be combing through all these records, issuing citations for each discrepancy.
Would you work for a place like that?
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