Richmond Homeschool had probably never encountered the full force of the internet before. It had no idea what had hit it when it happened. Clare's story spread across Reddit and social media rapidly, shared over and over again.
A lot of the people who saw the story went to the school's Facebook page to tell them what they thought of the story. Their words weren't kind. At first, the school just deleted the posts. In the end, they took down the page.