I want to know if he was taking this medication at the time he snapped, and what it was. If he was, I doubt very much if he can be held legally responsible for his actions. I very much regret that he was persuaded to plead guilty to anything.
As far as I am concerned, he was provoked beyond endurance by people who, when they grow up, will be well qualified to act as concentration camp guards.
Who, reading this story, can honestly say that this foul, cruel chaos erupting in our classrooms is preferable to corporal punishment, which we are told was so wicked? The authorities are close to achieving a total ban on smacking children.
But we live in fear of mercilessly violent teenagers. And nobody sees the connection.