[jpatokal]

Per the details in the original post, she is employed by a school, and has been suspended and told to not to talk to media until this is over:

http://www.freerangekids.com/boy-11-plays-basketball-in-own-...

And given the steady stream of well-documented, actual and equally ridiculous cases like this on Free Range Kids, I doubt this is a prank.

[jbigelow76]

I don't think it's impossible that this story is true, nor do I think it's a prank, but I wonder if the original author were pressed for identifying details if they would claim it was an amalgamation of different cases crafted into one "cautionary tale".

[tsotha]

They want to make an example out of her.