DANG!!
> ...the plan, which involved them luring him into the bathroom for a stabbing...
The authors also don't say whether it was the girls or boys bathroom. If the girls bathroom, he'd have to be instantly suspicious because he doesn't belong there, yet if it was the boys bathroom, the girls don't belong there either. It's pretty hard to imagine unisex bathrooms in 5th grade.
Agreed. But I’m a bit older and things seem to be quite different from my youth!