So my understanding from that story is that the child continued calling her "ma'am" after she asked him not to, then she escalated to (gasp) making him write it on a piece of paper and told his parents.
What's the *expletive deleted*ing problem? While "Ma'am" is not itself disrespectful, indeed it is respectful, it IS rude and disrespectful to continue calling someone something they have asked you not to call them*. Perhaps she likes to be called Ms. whatever. Perhaps she's one of those teachers that want's to go by her first name, perhaps she has PTSD from her own school days of being forced to call people "Ma'am". Who cares? It's her classroom and if she doesn't wish to be called that, that's her prerogative, and a 10 YO is old enough to get that after a small number of slip-ups.
How is the teacher in the wrong for expecting her class to refer to her as ....whatever the hell she wants?
Can you imagine the outrage is she had made him write it on the chalkboard 100 times?!? Then clean the erasers?
Instead of posting this *expletive deleted*it on FB, and crying about it the Parents should have said "OK Son, what did she ask you to call her? Then call her that, because she wants to be called that. Other adults or people you don't know should still be called Sir or Ma'am." Done *expletive deleted*ing deal.
*Cue the mom crying "My kid is special and shouldn't be held to behavior standards........Yep. There it is:
They added that Tamarion was hospitalized last month for a seizure-related activity, which included memory loss and hallucinations, something the teacher was unaware of.