[alexander_busek]

How did he get past 6th grade without doing something similar before? or is this perhaps not the first time?

From the excerpt:

"Depa had three prior battery arrests before the February attack and has been in a prison fight just last month, the Post reported."

I know that there's a long-standing Free Republic tradition of not reading the full article, but this info was contained in the excerpt!

Regards,

[Jacquerie]

So many posts to FR are ignorant. It took more time to type the question than to read the answer in the excerpt.