Students Call Teacher a Pedo unjustifiably and the Parents are mad the kids get punished.

Suspension for 10 days, for what could have irreversibly ruined a teacher's career, community status, ability to live where they do, and potentially their entire future as a functioning member of society. I think that's fair, i think it's reasonable. In order to judge whether the expulsion i'd have to see how the term rapist was applied to the innocent teacher.

How can a parent argue with that? The school is doing what the parent would not, teaching the children to take some responsibility for their online language.

As far as free speech, i get it, the kids should say what they want. But if we're going to say that no consequences can arise from their actions online, then it doesn't make sense to me to use those posts as probable cause to investigate a teacher.

What a common day analogy to "The Boy Who Cried Wolf".

I kind of want to see how the school district's lawyer's handle it. Given that it's a public school, i find it funny that they are essentially suing the taxpayers (and thus themselves) out of money they probably don't have to spare. I'd go into a long rant here about how they aren't making anything better by doing so and completely teaching the wrong message to their kids about right/wrong, but i already did one rant tonight, about telephones...

10 days is completely fair. There are better ways to "express yourself", for instance an After School Art program, or Poetry not involving criminalizing innocent people, or perhaps an aggressive game of softball.