Two points to this story.
1. Clearly this boy was under observation for something, but I was too young to know what was going on.
2. When I was in my mid teens, and at a different school, my mother told me that he’d committed suicide.
I don’t know whether this was anything to do with bullying, or pressure from teachers, or indeed any more details about the event. I don’t know whether the boy had been given any form of counselling, or how available that would have been in the late fifties and early sixties. It wasn’t something one talked about.