ContraryMary said: "...In this story the kid was probably not traumatized until his mother went off the deep end. Even at the age of five, there are lessons to be learned about dealing with life's missteps..."
The Mother's concern and reaction was appropriate to the situation, to the times we live in and was a demonstration of correct parental responsibility.
A critical life lesson is accepting the responsibility for and facing the consequences of life's missteps. Some consequences are more hazardous than others.
This "misstep" by the school was a big one. The Mother is correct in making certain the school accepts the consequences and responsibility for what might have been a very tragic "misstep."
What "responsibility"? All she did was go on TV, cry and goad her kid into crying too.
The article says she has a meeting scheduled with the Vice Principal for later this week. Why wouldn't she go to the meeting and see if she can resolve this without parading her five year old "baby" on TV first? With all due respect, do you really think the other boys in kindergarten aren't going to give her son holy hell for being referred to as a "baby" on TV?
A critical life lesson is accepting the responsibility for and facing the consequences of life's missteps.
A lesson she patently refuses to teach her son, based on the article.
This was not a tragic misstep. Let's not go overboard here. There's a big difference between discussing the event with the school to prevent it from happening again and going off the deep end, calling people incompetent. The latter doesn't help to resolve the situation and it only serves to traumatize the child.