I am a middle and high school teacher. I have been going through hell for 3 years at work. It all started when a student complained to the school psychologist about me supposably embarrassing her in class after we had a miscommunication. Afterwards, the school psychologist started to observe my class for a while. Ever since then I have been failing all of my classroom observations for poor nonverbal communication skills. At the end of the year my boss told me that my performance was unsatisfactory in some areas, and that I would be put on probation until I improved. Everything on my evaluation was about the way that I looked, and my facial expressions. I told my boss that it was impossible for me to change the way I looked and asked for her to tell me how I could improve my teaching methodology itself. She couldn't come up with anything. I demanded that I be evaluated by someone else if she couldn't give me any other feedback than how my face looked. The next year I had a evaluation by another administrator and it was the same thing. This time she added criticism about my multitasking ability as well. Throughout all this mess I spoke with several professionals for some advise about handling the discrimination that I was facing. I was considering telling them that I had Aspergers thinking that it might help with the discrimination. However, I just recently found out from a whistle blower that the school psychologist accused me of having Aspergers after the student miscommunication three years ago. Ever since then, all of my evaluators have been sent with a specific objective of digging up dirt on me. What should I do? Do I need to resign at this point? It isn't fair that having Aspergers is a reason in itself for termination. Somehow how it is just fine for teachers at my school to have add, disslexia, and even bipolar disorder. The Autism spectrum is unacceptable though.
