--- title: Mom Facebook Post Gets Child Expelled description: A Florida mom says her Facebook rant got her child expelled from preschool. canonical: https://time.com/3221950/mom-facebook-child-expelled/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-29T15:44:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:52.764Z og:title: Mom Facebook Post Gets Child Expelled og:description: A Florida mom says her Facebook rant got her child expelled from preschool. og:url: https://time.com/3221950/mom-facebook-child-expelled/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mom Facebook Post Gets Child Expelled twitter:description: A Florida mom says her Facebook rant got her child expelled from preschool. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Mom Says Her Facebook Rant Got Her Child Expelled from Preschool  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Aug 29, 2014 3:44 PM CUT  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Aug 29, 2014 3:44 PM CUT A mother named Ashley Habat was upset that her son’s preschool, Florida’s Sonshine Christian Academy in Florida, didn’t give her enough warning about school picture day. So, like many people do when they’re upset, she took to Facebook to vent. “Why is it that every single day there is something new I dislike about Will’s School?” the post read, [according to](http://www.news4jax.com/news/4yearold-expelled-from-preschool-for-moms-facebook-post/27740108 "undefined") Jacksonville, Fla. news outlet WJXT-TV. “Are my standards really too high or are people working in the education field really just that ignorant.” She also tagged Sonshine Christian Academy in her post. Will was expelled the next day, she claims. WJXT-TV reported that a letter of dismissal said that Habat’s “relationship with Sonshine did not get off to a very good start the first day of school . . . You utilized social media to call into question not only the integrity but the intelligence of our staff.” “I was in shock,” Habat told WJXT-TV. “Why would you expel a 4-year-old over something his mom posts on her private Facebook page only people on her friends list can see?” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3221950/mom-facebook-child-expelled/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3221950/mom-facebook-child-expelled/"},"headline":"Mom Says Her Facebook Rant Got Her Child Expelled from Preschool","datePublished":"2014-08-29T15:44:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:52.764Z","description":"A Florida mom says her Facebook rant got her child expelled from preschool.","url":"https://time.com/3221950/mom-facebook-child-expelled/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Family"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3221950/mom-facebook-child-expelled/","name":"Mom Says Her Facebook Rant Got Her Child Expelled from Preschool"}}]}] ```