Snitching

Anybody who has followed my escapades since the beginning of the school year know that I have two challenges this year:

1. Some rather severe behavior problems.
2. Difficulty with the special ed teacher I share my room with in the afternoon.

Today, I finally went in and "snitched" on that teacher. We have a student that has some problems paying attention. My special ed teacher is convinced that he is autistic, to some degree. I disagree and told her so. She suggested that she has a "friend" that could come in and watch him in action. This I STRONGLY disagreed to. I told her I was not convinced he was anything more than lazy and inattentive, to give it some time, and if problems continued, I would bring it up to child study. She didn't like this response. She doesn't beliveve in child study and told me an outside source would be better.

Then, last Friday, she stopped in to check on some of our boys during lunch and this boy's father was there. She approached him, introduced herself, and asked if the boy had ever been seen by a medical doctor. When the father said no, she suggested to him that he take the boy to see one. I found out about all of this AFTER the fact. I've been angry and struggling with this since then. First, this was not her parent to speak to, it's my co-teacher's and mine. Secondly, you NEVER tell a parent that their child should be "checked out." I talked to my co-teacher and to another special ed teacher and that, combined with several other incidents, drove me to speak with my assistant principal this afternoon. Needless to say, she was pretty angry over some of what I had to say.

I know I did the right thing, but I feel like a snitch. And tomorrow, once she gets a "talking to" by the assistant principal, I'm going to have to deal with a very angry teaching partner. She's going to know who "told" on her.

It had to be done...right?