Dealing with a difficult parent
I'm a teacher at a very small private school in Florida. I enjoy it and enjoy the teaching for the most part, but recently I had a parent who had access to my personal phone number give it to her kid (12 year old) to "report bullying" that was happening to her on Instagram. That was inappropriate to begin with, and the kid never sent anything but the kid then proceeded to share it in a Snapchat group chat with a bunch of other kids both from our school and not. Now I'm getting prank calls from one student in particular that doesn't even go to our school. My big issue now is that after I found out she shared the number I went ahead and wrote up a referral for documentation because I think she was wildly in the wrong here. The parent thinks that's ridiculous because allegedly someone asked for the number (which is stupid because she should never have had it to begin with). Now I am having a meeting with the parent angry about the referral. Any suggestions for how to beat handle this? Our handbook doesn't exactly have this scenario to fall back on