SCHOOL ‘BOOT’ LAWSUIT

‘ Ruined my son’s rep’

A teenage boy’s angst over a breakup led his pricey Manhattan prep school to suspend him — because other students and their “hysterical’’ parents claimed he might kill his classmates, a new lawsuit says. Now the boy’s mom is suing for $2 million, arguing her son’s rreputation has been damaged. “He has no weapons other than aan old Nerf gun and a wooden rurubber-band gun at our weekend plplace,” says his mother, identified in the Manhattan suit only by her ininitials to protect her son’s privavacy. The mom told The Post on Fridday that she tried to explain to aadministrators at the $45,000-ayear Leman Manhattan Preparatory School on Broad Street that they were overreacting, just like the other parents. “I said, ‘You know he’s just down, and you know he’s never hurt a fly,’ ” she said she told tthem of her son. “The idea that someone could t take ama that’s a . . . photo somewhere of him grounds looking miserable that says ‘F--k people,’ and fofor what we were subjected was just mind-blowing to me.” The rich drama began when Leman officials yanked the teen from class in February over a December 2017 Snapchat post. “Call me pussy but I’m bawling mmy eyes out. I hate this f--kin place called earth” and “f--k people,” he said in the post, according to court papers.

School employees called the cops and eventually suspended the boy after parents complained, the papers say.

“Given the recent stories in the news concerning gun control, especially in school vicinities, I felt the need to bring this to the attention [of the] Leman administration, given that it is a possibility that this student may or may not have access to firearms,” an unidentified parent wrote in a letter to higher-ups.

The boy’s mom argued back and forth with the school, including in an Feb. 23 e-mail that read, “Have had 4 mothers call me today to say that their kids have come home from school telling them that there is a rumor all over Leman that [my son] has threatened to shoot up the school.

“It is just NOT TRUE! . . . The school has to address this. This is catastrophic.”

Police investigated and found no evidence that the student was a threat, although they referred him for a psychological evaluation, according to court papers. Doctors determined that the student wasn’t a threat, the suit claims.

A spokeswoman for the school said, “We are unable to provide comment on pending legal matters or about individual students out of respect for their privacy.”