I'm a Special Education teacher, a field heavily regulated by state and federal regulations. This week I'll be having a meeting with an assistant pricipal, my Sp.Ed. process coordinator, a general education teacher, a mentally retarded girl (or, as I'm supposed to call her "a girl with mental retardation"), and her mother, just so I can switch the MR girl from a general education Civics class to a Sp Ed. Social Studies class. I've spent more time in the weeks since school started on paperwork compliance than on lesson planning.
I loves me the bureaucracy.