What is likely to actually happen is a long suspension from school, and referral into counselling. Do I expect that to work well? It has been known to, but my confidence isn’t high. We do have problems here and I’m not sure we’re equipped to deal with them - but we need to be clear on what the problems actually are, and not be getting them confused with other issues.
(And - to be clear - as I understand it, one of the boys involved is not a student at the school and I don’t believe they know who he is yet, so I know nothing about his situation or why he was involved).
Don’t be surprised if you find out the other boy is NOT a Catholic.
It ‘s just a routine racist hate crime attack. Actually kind of mild.
There have been many thousands of these in America since the 1960s.