One of the kids I have has a mom who is a mommy blogger. I am a SpEd teacher.

Her son was suspended for one day. No details for privacy, but it was after months and months of trying to redirect and counsel, Mom was kept in the loop, and student knows better. No one in the school believes the suspension was undeserved or an overreaction.

Mom posted online to all her followers a totally false story of what happened, saying we kicked him out of school permanently and this was over an isolated incident and we never communicated to her that he was having difficulties, and totally misrepresented the incident. She posted the name of the school and address and encouraged people to show up or send mail in support. Thousands of people commented, some making comments insinuating they were going to come to the school with weapons or mail us dangerous objects on top of making very vulgar insults that are too cruel for me to repeat.

She took the post down after two days once we got police involved (because of the threats). Other parents and students saw it. We had police at our door, checking everyone in and out of the building the next day. I am scared to go back to work. Is this just something else we get to deal with now, with the rise of social media and parents documenting their kids lives online? Is this normal? What do I tell the students? I don't know what to do.

Also, just for comment advice sake...Small private school, no union. Leaving means a $10k pay cut to teach in the public school district.

Edit: it’s now Monday morning and we got the lawyer and police’s a-okay to remove the kid and ban them both from school property. I feel bad for the kid as he’s very sweet but mom is a nightmare.