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When websites turn off comments that generally shows many people don't believe the 'narrative'.
In this case, the narrative is questionable.
It would make sense if this were early in the school year (like August), and the kid had just moved from city-x to city-y. In this story told? I would be asking how many times this kid has been late over the past year. I’m not buying into this story...it just sounds too fake.