-to teach him a lesson.
A thirteen year old is being charged with felony assault after stabbing another kid with a pencil. It wasn’t completely unprovoked either-it sounds like they were both flinging pencils and it got out of hand.
But eh, why should we care if a teenager is saddled for the rest of their life with a felony arrest record? Not like the old days where it slips off your record at eighteen. No sir. In fact, I’ll bet they are going to find a way to charge him as an adult.
Even if the kid gets this dismissed by a judge, he still has a felony assault arrest to follow him when he tries to apply for a job, enroll in secondary education, rent an apartment, etc.
That’ll teach him a lesson. Maybe he can do hard time in detention (as in incarceration, not "after-school detention", which would have been more appropriate) for his felony assault. Even the principal thought it was an overeaction to arrest and charge the kid.