Anonymous
One of Charlie’s “brothers”, decided to lie to his teacher to get out of doing homework, and to hide from his parents, his terrible behaviour in school.
He told his teacher that his parents were fighting at home, and that this was the reason he was acting out.
It was a flat out lie.
The problem that I have with this episode is that many children may attempt to lie about their parents.
The problem is that teachers are state mandated, Department of Children and Families, reporters.
In “real life”, a child’s family would be under investigation for suspected abuse/neglect.
I don’t know if these writers go to their jobs riding on a pegasus over fields of gumdrops and lolipops, but this is the real world, and a child acting like that for millions…