Caroline Mickey News Today

Wearing school gear and buttons that say "Save Alpine Crest," around 100 parents, teachers and students gathered at the Red Bank Community Center on Wednesday evening hoping to preserve their community school.

After a complaint about her planned presentation of a Mothers Day program for kindergarten through second grade students at Alpine Crest Elementary, librarian Caroline Mickey may have remembered a sobering observation: No good deed goes unpunished.

Alpine Crest Elementary librarian Caroline Mickey chose to plan a lesson around Mothers Day because she thought it would be an easy way to fill 50 minutes with her students in kindergarten through second grade.

Officials at the Alpine Crest Elementary School canceled a program designed by librarian Caroline Mickey to be sensitive to children who might not have a mother.

Officials at the Alpine Crest Elementary School canceled a program designed by librarian Caroline Mickey to be sensitive to children who might not have a mother.

The administration even apologized to the hate group and cancelled the book-reading.