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Well of course it is. And the system really put him through hell. He had to change schools, and lost all of his friends.

But you're being unfair to his parents. They did all they could to fight it. And they paid a lot to put him in private school.

Still, he did overreact. And he eventually agreed with his parents that he overreacted.

The child wrote a false admission of guilt (apology for something he did not do). What kind of lesson do you think he learned from that?

Its normal to overreact as a teenager. No need to write articles about itm. Our inability to see childhood and adolescence for what they are is to our detriment