Bomb DROPPED!

Well today my district dropped not 1 but 3 bombs on special education employees.
My first rant is a side note- why do people ask for advice or input when they have no plans to listen to it or take it into consideration? Like why even bother?

BOMB 1:
We will be following the Seattle Model A or Incomplete.
I am worried about the mind-set shift this will take for building.
I am worried that proficient looks sounds IS different for many of our students and if they don't fit into boxes they will be deemed incomplete.
I am worried for students who cannot access equitably because the same IEP and MLL supports simply cannot be provided this way will default to incomplete and that sucks.
I am sad that I tried, actively tried to influence this and I feel completely ignored right now and that's a hard place to sit.

BOMB 2:
Also today is the day that progress reports would be due, but without guidance for weeks and because we aren't doing grades at quarter we were told not to worry.  Well today, we are told to do them, and have them done as close to today as possible. Let's talk about the stress, anxiety and shear overwhelming feelings that this induces in me and my colleagues.

Progress reports for 1 student with 3 goals is going to take 1-3 hours between creating the forms to collect the feedback, waiting SEVERAL DAYS for the feedback to come in, going through sorting, averaging and organizing feedback and actually completing the write ups.  Now multiply that by 20-30. I provide data on at least 3 goals for roughly 25 students. Some students I provide feedback on 5 or more goals. That's a minimum of 25 hours of work, in addition to my normal daily duties, but what it really looks like is 40 hours another FULL TIME JOB each progress reporting cycle.  So to say that it's just a little paperwork, or just some data, you have no idea and have clearly never done this before.



BOMB 3:
Special education teachers- Because you didn't have enough to do now you need to create plans for every kid on your case load about what can and cannot be done at school. I understand the purpose of this- but where is the time for this. I am keeping meticulous data of what I do when, how long students are getting support, what that support looks like.  We still have no guidance as to what this will look like. We have not been trained on it and are simply expected to DO for between 10-25 kids depending on the case load- and just because I think a goal can be worked on doesn't mean the teacher providing that service thinks so, so each one will take more time so we can actually collaborate on them- we barely have time to meet as it is.

I am writing this holding back tears because I feel unsupported, unheard and that my district lacks understanding of the time commitments of this work.  Not to mention half my data is in my classroom that I cannot access.