Just Try Harder!

Today was INCREDIBLY frustrating. I have a student named Robert. He should NOT be in 6th grade. He cannot handle multiple teachers and classrooms and the overstimulation of a large group of students. I have to tell him EVERY DAY to stop laying on the floor. Anytime you say his name to get him to focus, he throws a tantrum. During his math test, he got so mad that he went and put himself INSIDE his own locker. His reading and writing scores are below a 3rd grade level. No teacher has been able to get him to do any work. I even had a special educator come into my room and work only with him for an entire period--still nothing.

We had an emergency IEP meeting called to address his placement. (All his teachers think he should be in a special education class.)
Well, during this meeting the IEP chairperson basically told me that I am a lazy teacher who just gives up on kids and is trying to get kids out of my classrooms and into someone else's. She gave Robert a stern talking-to and then decided to wash her hands of the whole business. I mean, since I'm his teacher, if I would just work a little harder to accomodate Robert's needs--that IS my job, after all. Forget that I have 31 other students in that class to teach, I need to make sure that I am keeping Robert off the floor and out of his locker and actually sitting down in a seat and not starting fights with anyone in his general proximity. Forget about the fact that we should be trying to do what's best for Robert, I mean, how bad would it look if we put another kid in special education?! We have to keep up appearances!! Forget about the fact that the other teachers and I see him every day and give him a stern talking-to every single day, clearly the 10 minutes you just spent with him overrule anything we could possibly say, right? I mean, you know best.