For instance, yesterday I went to a conference at my daughter’s school. She is in special education and it was a transitional meeting to talk about middle school and related things. I’ve probably been to 20 or so case conferences throughout my daughter’s elementary years, so I’m pretty well-versed in the lingo and the way they go about things.
So we’re sitting there and everytime the instructor hands me a page (of goals and stuff like that) she would read it aloud as I was looking at it. The first time I said, “Yes, I already read that part, I understand,” but she kept doing it. And each time I’d tell her that I had already read through it. It was all I could do to keep from throttling her.
And then when I’d speak up to tell the new teacher things about my daughter she’d look away or get distracted by someone else in the room. I found this to be incredibly rude and it go to the point that I would stop in mid-sentence until she put her attention back on me and then I’d continue. I felt like they were trying to talk over me about my own child, and that just doesn’t cut it. I’ve been my child’s advocate her whole life and no one knows her better than I do. For them to sit and act like they don’t need my input was incredibly frustrating and I will not put up with it if they try to pull it again.
Unrelated to that scenario, I just called my doctor’s office to reschedule an appointment and the receptionist starts telling me the open appointments for next week. The first one she said was 11:45 on Wed., so I said, “Ok, that would be fine, Wed. at 11:45 works for me.” But she kept listing all of the other times and days that were available. I had to repeat myself three times about the Wed. appointment.
I’m an intelligent woman and I feel like people who work in schools and in the medical world talk down to me as if I couldn’t possibly read and understand things for myself. I’m sure they do this to everyone, but that doesn’t make it any less aggravating.
Apology for the boring thread, it is truly mundane and pointless. 
