Oh, Retire Already!

There's a 1st grade teacher that has Ken, one of my high functioning autistic students, in her class. A short background on her is that she is CONSTANTLY complaining, and she never asks for advice or help. She rolls her eyes at me whenever I ask to speak with her, and in the past she has said to other teachers that I am the worst special education teacher in the school. She has never observed my teaching, so I try to brush off her attitude and these comments to her own dissatisfaction of her job. He only gets 200 minutes per week in my classroom. He's in her room for 85% of the school day. At the beginning of the year he was crying often and very anxious. He has a difficult time with change and transitions. She was constantly bringing him to the Special Ed office and saying things like, "I just don't know what to do with him!", "He doesn't belong in my classroom!", and "He never stops crying!". Ken is very smart, and he does not cry when he's in my classroom because I understand his needs and I don't yell at him. He LOVES trains, so I made him a daily schedule using trains and Boardmaker pictures that he can switch using Velcro. It took me a good 2-3 hours to make. When I showed it to her, she just said, "OK." No thank you, nothing. Then my teaching aide comes into the class 10 minutes later and tells me that this teacher stopped her in the hall and asked who made the schedule. My aide responded, "Mrs. Jones did." Then the witchy teacher said, "Well, she's finally doing something!" WTF, lady!? She has no idea what I do and don't do in my classroom because she's never even set foot in it! Then when I went to give the schedule to Ken, she said, "He doesn't belong in this classroom!" IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CLASS AND HIM! I'm sure that made him feel horrible and embarrassed. I responded loudly, "Ken is a very smart boy." Every time I try to say to her, "You need to be professional about this situation", she turns away from me. She's very disrespectful. For these reasons, coupled with other instances, the case manager and I talked to the Assistance Principal about the situation. The response was positive, and I'm hoping the situation will dissipate. The whole thing pisses me off just writing about it.