Fuck AI

Immediately after they accused you, did your school put you in unsupervised, close proximity with your accusers?

Or did the school keep you separated, and/or supervise your accuser's interactions with you?

Whether against the boy in retaliation for harassment, or against the girl in retaliation for a false accusations, violent retribution was and easily foreseeable and highly likely outcome after the accusations.

The school may not have had sufficient evidence to distinguish victim from perpetrator. The principal indicated he believed the girls were lying; that they were making false claims about the boy. And yet, he put the girl on the bus with the boy, without supervision adequate to prevent a fight.

He put someone he believed to be a victim in close proximity with someone he believed to be a perpetrator, and a fight broke out. Like that result wasn't at all predictable.

Nobody is upset that the investigation and criminal case against the boy is incomplete. The delay is not the problem here.

Please acknowledge the actual problem: The school fucked up their immediate response, and that fuckup instigated a chain of events resulting in their punishment of the person we now know to be the victim.

Having a small amount of proof (i.e. evidence) against you isn't enough to go to juvie, duh, but it's enough to get the courts involved. The school handling this internally was a mistake, once child porn and sex crimes are happening it's time to call the cops.