That just about killed me reading that and thinking of myself in your position. I probably would have the trouble makers (including the parent snitchers) down doing pushups or spending a night in a box (ala Cool Hand Luke). You have my full respect. Being a teacher, you must be able to both control and teach the children in a calm manner, and also, deal with some difficult parents using some political skills. It also must take incredible patience and leadership skills.
I hope that you can have the special needs kid moved to a different environment with a lower teacher to student ratio that will serve better as it really is not fair to you and the rest of the students. It is probably the primary reason I dropped out of boy scouts before making Eagle - our troop had a future inmate as one of the scouts and the scoutmaster spent all his time dealing with the jerk. The jerk should have been kicked out of the boy scouts.
