It seems odd that anyone would think cool headed Clark would've started any fights, when it seems as if it doesn't take much to set off the football players from Friday's fight. They're teased a little and react physically, and the principal wants to blame Clark? Sounds as if he's looking for a scape goat and from what Lois read in Clark's file, he's the perfect candidate.
I'm also glad to see that whatever happened in Kansas to make him run, wasn't in the file. Just out of curiosity, how does someone set fire to a toilet?
“Kent attacked them.” The principal stared at her. “You may not know this, but he has a record of doing this kind of thing before.”
Lois stared at him for a moment. What was he trying to get her to say? Was he expecting her to betray Clark, who hadn’t been trying to do anything other than protect her?
“He never hit anyone,” Lois said firmly. “Anyone who says otherwise is lying or mistaken.”
She’d be able to say that under oath, although if she was asked about him throwing people or grabbing them it would be a different story.
The principal looked disappointed. “That’s what the team members involved said; they were just tired and clumsy after the game.”
So, in other words, the principal was willing to lie to get someone to change their story or tattle on someone else? Gee, what a great educator.
“You should stay away from that boy,” Principal Hardwick said. “He’s bad news.”
Perry would say that he's good front page news.
Lois knew that she couldn’t get testimony from those teachers, however. Beyond the risk of being outed before she submitted her story, she knew their jobs were all at stake. They were unlikely to talk to a highs school junior who couldn’t change anything.
Even a teacher with tenure?
For a moment, she struggled with herself. Clark had treated her with nothing but kindness and looking at his file would be a horrible violation of his privacy.
Of course, Lois had already looked at her own file. There hadn’t been a lot there, for which she was relieved.
Um... Lois, YOU looking at your own file, and YOU looking at a new friend's file, who isn't a part of your investigation, isn't the same thing at all. It is a total disregard of their trust, especially for a friend who protected you, and helped you on numerous occasions. Clark's not going to be happy to learn she's read his file.
Despite this, no one ever claimed to see him acting out in anger. This made the psychologist believe that what Clark was doing was cold and deliberate.
This analysis from talking to him ONCE every two years? That's pretty weak.
His records from Wichita Kansas suddenly stopped when he was fifteen, and the year after that he was noted as having been home schooled.
This school year his grades had been exemplary. He was back to making straight A’s, and there were no reports of behavior problems.
Home schooling aka learning to live on the streets without a home?
Lois’s mind raced; the address she’d seen for Clark couldn’t be right. According to the school records he was living with Louie, her father’s friend. Lois was friends with Louie’s daughter; they planned to go to college together, although they hadn’t been as close lately.
Still, she’d have heard if Louie had a foster kid in his household, either from Louie himself or from his daughter.
I doubt Clark lives with Louie. I'm guessing that Clark is using Louie's address to get into this better school district.
Lois was intensely aware of the camera in her bag, but suddenly the football story seemed a little less interesting.
No, Lois. Football VERY interesting. Clark BORING.
None of it made sense, and if there was anything Lois hated, it was an unsolved mystery.
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No! No! No! Lois don't investigate Clark. He doesn't deserve it. Just let him get his diploma and move on. PLEASE!
You know it's like arguing with a brick wall, trying to get her to change her mind.
I'm pretty worried about Clark now - was he involved in one of those fights the principal went out to handle? Or did the guy just drag him in to give him the third degree like he did Lois?
Oh, good grief, please don't tell me he's going to do that old trick of sending Lois out of the room and telling Clark she tattled on him or something dumb like that. Because after the way he tried to trip up Lois, he seems like the type to do that. Hopefully Clark is too smart to fall for it!
I could totally see that.
And I could also see Clark believe that Lois threw him under the bus. Let's hope after what happened with her mother Friday night that he knows Lois would never do that to her.
It's so easy to take a few incidents and write a kid off. Not that Clark could totally explain everything without being locked up (or dissected!) but how could any counselor actually interact with Clark and think he's a sociopath? Good grief, even if no one had "seen him act out in anger" (which actually surprises me a bit, not even shortly after his parents died?), I'm sure he was upset and worried about any harm he'd caused even accidentally. Sounds more like the counselor never bothered to really talk to Clark, just wrote up a report on second hand information from a bunch of people trying to cover their butts (hmm, kind of like the principal here). 
