ZepHead

I don't understand how someone's life is being threatened by vulgar jokes.

preamble1776, you can tell those guys that the teacher is your relative or something and implore them to stop bullying her.

ecouter11

I don't know, I fear that there will be backlash if you report them and severe action gets taken. Just maybe tweet to them and ask them to stop.

cc123sb

Exactly. As long as it's not anything threatening to her life, you're just going to start problems by reporting the incident.

Here are possible outcomes:
You embarrass her in front of her colleagues (some teachers may be embarrassed by offensive comments)
She finds out, there are no repercussions (since it isn't violent) and you start additional problems between her and the students

What do you want to happen? The school to interpret it as hate speech and pursue serious action against the kids, perhaps ruining their future? I see no real upside to tattling on the kids.

(Though, in NO way do I condone the vulgar remarks...)

oldfort

They are bullying the teacher through twittering. I would think any student who has any respect for this teacher would speak up, but I understand it would be hard. But this is someone who stood up for you, got you into a program you couldn't afford. She didn't have to do that, she did it because she believed in you, that you deserved a chance even if you were economically disadvantaged. She thought it was important to have a level play field for someone like you. If she could put herself on the line for you, why couldn't you do the same for her?

I would go to the school principal and let him/her know what's going on, that's the least you could do. She had your back by sticking her neck out, but what about you? It is always harder to do the right thing.

FollowTheReaper

^But they're not bullying her. Bullying her would mean that they are going on her twitter and saying these things to her, which they're obviously not doing. It would be unnecessary to bring these harsh comments to her attention by reporting it.

oldfort

It is effecting her reputation, and you can't be sure she is not aware of it.

What those kids are twittering will come back to bite them someday. A very friend of my daughter working in finance lost her job because of what she twittered about a very senior person. It went viral.