On The Radar

So on Friday, we had somebody from the School CEO's office come by to meet with us during our Professional Development. I think the title of her little presentation was "How To Piss Off A Room Full of People In Ten Minutes or Less." I think that's what it was.
Anyway, the official reason of coming was to make sure we know that when Special Education students get disciplined, we can't stop the services they are supposed to be receiving.
Okay--I guess. I mean, that whole argument comes from people who don't have any idea what happens at school. So, you have a kid who is acting like a crazy person. I get that we can't hide him in the closet and forget about him. However, you've got 30 other kids in the room that deserve an education too. And it's never just ONE kid.

But whatever. Her ACTUAL, underhanded reason for coming was to stand in front of us and let us know that we're "on the radar" for discipline issues and we better get our shit together, or else. She really actually said "on the radar" and "we'll be watching you" and crazy scare tactics like that. We know you suck and you better stop sucking immediately or something bad is going to happen.

Of course, like normal people, we get a little bit defensive. We don't have any money or resources, they keep sending us students who have been discipline problems all over the city, have just gotten out of JAIL, etc. In the middle of her rant on In-School Suspension (she has lots of rules for ISS), she keeps bringing up that we need to have "strategies and things" in place for when a student acts up. One of the teachers (not me, for once), raises his hand and asks for suggestions.
He says,"You keep saying we need strategies and things. Can you give me some suggestions for what KIND of strategies and things?"
She ACTUALLY says,"You know, strategies and things. I mean, what kind of strategies and things can you come up with?"
and he says,"I'm asking YOU. You're whose radar I'm on. I'm asking YOU what I need to do to fix it."
She then asks if our administrator can come in the room. She presents the situation to our administrator like we are all scared of our school and our overwhelmed with how to deal with our children. Managing Assistant Principal (MAP for the sake of laziness) is all kinds of perplexed. The lady purposefully misinterpreted the situation so she didn't have to address our concerns. But MAP is freaking out because she doesn't want it to look like she can't control her staff or there might be some kind of discord at the school (God forbid anyone see the truth, right?) So she spends the next 10 minutes trying to sugarcoat everything and talking about how everything we had said related to last year and we really didn't need anything this year because everything was so much better and blah blah blah.
So MAP and mean lady leave the meeting all, "Ah, another job well done!" while we're still sitting there stewing over the injustice of everything. Education at its' finest!