Dealing with idiots

I haven't told Jack that we're planning to transfer him to a new school in the Fall. The biggest reason for this is that every time he gets in trouble, or gets upset with a student or teacher, he will throw that up in their faces as a sort of "Screw you! I'm out of here!". He does it already, although he has a particular school already in mind- not the one he'll be attending.

Earlier I got a phone call from the office letting me know that Jack was having a rough time. Usually this means they don't know how to handle him, and they mistakenly think that I can soothe him over, and then he'll be able to return to class. Sometimes (a lot of the time), I end up taking him home. The last two times, I have left him there. It gets to be ridiculous for them to call me in to do their job for them.

They called me today because the gym teacher didn't put Jack in the same group as one of his "BFF's" (a boy he really likes), and he pretty much lost it. He ended up in the office, and apparently kicked the file cabinet. For whatever reason, gym is one of his worst "related arts" classes this year. I don't know if the gym teacher is fed up with him, and frankly, I'd like to honestly not give a flying fig how the gym teacher feels. (In either Kindergarten or First grade, the gym teacher really rubbed me the wrong way when it came to handling Jack, and it took me a while to get past it). He came up to me a while back, and told me about some incident that had taken place, suggesting that maybe Jack needed to switch medications. Heh.. a couple of weeks ago, the Intervention Specialist pointed out that the weekly behavior reports would hopefully give the (medication prescribing) doctor the information he needed (what, to change his medications?). Today in the office, the Principal let me know that Jack's been having a really rough week or so. He just looked at me like I should mention what we're doing about it at home- like, changing medications?

I could be paranoid, or just be overly defensive, but you don't change a kid's medication because they've had a bad week. Several bad weeks? Maybe.. if we noticed it wasn't helping at all, or the behaviors had gotten much worse since changing meds or doses, then sure. Jack's been having good weeks and bad weeks. Right on schedule, he's having his bad weeks. I keep saying I'm not going to change things up just because they want a "good" kid to deal with. I've already felt like I have to jump through hoops to send a happy-go-lucky, obedient child to school, and that's just ridiculous. Jack is who Jack is, and they need to get with the program.