This book was awful. The whole plot was so stupid and pointless as the problem could've been prevented so easily in the beginning. The author makes it seem like it's soooo complicated and "the truth" is so hard to detect, when in reality it is very simple. SPOILERS: The boy wants to get kicked out of the class so he purposefully breaks a rule, KNOWING that he is in the wrong, and then pretends it was about patriotism and that he thinks he's in the right, when he knows damn well he isn't. So the teacher suspends him (rightfully) and then the kids lies become some giant media story when there's really nothing to it, and in the end both the kid and teacher leave the school and both their lives are ruined. Like my dude could've just asked to get switched out of her class because he's not compatible with her, but no, he deliberately destroys both his own and the teacher's life. Probably the worst book I've ever read ngl. Only read if you have to for school (like me unfortunately), and if you do I am deeply sorry.