Right after I got home I got an email from Younger Boy's guidance counselor.

Apparently this afternoon Younger Boy decided to pull on another boy's backpack and nearly choke him.

When first asked about it by the school staff who witnessed it he said he was "playing around".

After further discussion he told them, "It was not me who pulled the backpack.  Middle Boy did it."

What?  He doesn't even go to your school.  Do you use that as an automatic response so often that you didn't even think it through?

When confronted by MULTIPLE TEACHERS at school and again at home BY ME he still insists that it was Middle Boy who pulled on the backpack.

There is not being accoutable and then there is this...whatever this is.