I have a simile experience. I live in an affluent suburb and I moved here for the school. There’s 5 vice principals and all sorts of others. Of course there are

I have a simile experience. I live in an affluent suburb and I moved here for the school. There’s 5 vice principals and all sorts of others. Of course there are 30 students per classroom. Also, sadly, the vice principals make more than teachers so there’s a perverse incentive for people who need more money to move from teaching to administration. I had a surreal meeting that the school scheduled for me when my child’s kindergarten teacher wanted to tell me my child had autism. It was the principal, the kindergarten vice principal, a backup vp, the special needs assessor (not the special needs teacher there was someone whose permanent job for the school was to identify kids with special needs), the teacher, and a county observer. So six school staff and me and my spouse. It seemed like a big deal when we got there. They said that my child had autism and should be moved into special classes. I asked what made them think that and the kindergarten teacher presented her “evidence” that my child got upset once because the room was too noisy and poor performance in class. I asked what else made them think that and they didn’t have anything else. There was no medical training out of the six people. It was so surreal. My kid had been screened many times and no one said anything so I said I would talk with the pediatrician. Pediatrician laughed and said they were crazy and wrote a letter saying bo autism. The school ignored the letter and tried to move them into the class despite my disagreement. Comically, they had forgotten to file some form weeks earlier and when I showed the county procedure the county observer forced them to “follow the documented procedure” and so the process stopped, my kid stayed in regular class. And, weirdly, they never filed the forms for stage 1 of the multi stage process and I never heard about it. (10 years later, still no autism). I never got closer as to what was going on and I fear their attention to pivoted to some other, less fortunate child.