Originally Posted by inky
Re-posting some good advice I read on this board:

"The trick is to partition the whole past relationship with any school folk who are giving you a hard time and focus-focus-focus on the needs of the child and possible solutions. It's an odd trick, but I know you'll get the hang of it. You may not get the accommodations you are looking for, but at least your entire mind won't go crazy. Just that little walled off part that you can vent about here for the next 20 years. Hopefully somethings will have changed by then."
-Grinity

It's true. We won't be sitting across the table from these teachers in 20 years eating Thanksgiving dinner together and we won't be trying to answer to the teachers about how much effort we put into making sure their needs were met.