What started as a dispute between a parent and principal in Florida over alleged elementary-school cyberbullying has escalated.
Now the angry Polk County mother is attempting to hold her daughter’s school and the entire district school board responsible for what she sees as chronic mishandling of bullying reports.
The dispute began when a 5th-grade girl at Rosabelle W. Blake Academy in Lakeland, Florida, allegedly posted a TikTok video that dramatizes her shooting an 11-year-old classmate in the head. The Polk County State Attorney’s Office now is deciding whether to charge the child for violating a Florida statute that makes it illegal to make “written or electronic threats to kill or do bodily injury,” according to the Lakeland Police Department. …