You don't happen to care to elaborate, do you?

I've looked all over the google and can't find anything that points to this being false.

I believe they're complaining because it comes from "TheDailyMail". Sometimes people acquire biases towards certain news sources, and then completely ignore pieces from it regardless if it's reasonably true or not, simply by virtue of it coming from "TheDailyMail". Similar to how people grow biases towards Fox/VoA.

In fairness, the Mail has massive and well studied form in what we can generously call 'making shit up'.

Don't be silly. This kind of thing is not rare and exists in many schools throughout the country, just not many this old.