The last to know

Our ISD now has an Advisory Committee dedicated to Special Education. The Special Ed Advisory Committee has met several times, officially twice. I am hoping it will prove to be a positive force in our school district, even though its track record does not tell that tale. (It has been a committee on paper only, no members, until this month). The Director of Special Ed has been the person responsible for getting this committee together each year, and I guess she had decided it wasn't needed, until a parent found out that our district used to have a committee, but that it had dissolved. These parents, me included, began meeting together unofficially, until the Director of Special Ed got an invitation to attend our Special Ed Advisory Committee Meeting. I guess she woke up, shook her head, looked around and decided she'd better take the reins of this rogue parent organization before it got out of hand. She promptly called an official meeting three days after our 3rd "unofficial" meeting. Instead of ignoring her, we all went to her meeting as well. I did think it was a little stinky on her part to do that, and not attend the meeting that we had invited her to attend.
Our district has the reputation for being difficult, unbending, and uncooperative when it comes to making changes, especially in the area of special education. (My position that our ISD was difficult, was affirmed during the meeting date snafu). The parents know the administrator's are stinkers, the surrounding school districts know this, educator's teaching in private schools in our town know this. The only people who don't seem to know this are the administrators and the director of special education of our ISD. I guess the stinkers are always last to know that they're stinkers.