I'm still not 100% clear on whether anyone genuinely believed it was a bomb or not.
Surely the fact that nobody thought that evacuating the school was necessary tells you all you need to know. Ask yourself if you thought something MIGHT be a bomb at a school what would be the very first thing you would do?

So I don't know where I stand on this. It sounds to me like it was probably badly handled but I'd hesitate to lionise this kid either.
The kid shouldn't be lionised, it just an over-reaction to an over-reaction.

The whole thing is ridiculous, we shouldn't even be having to talk about it as it should have been just dealt with by the school, not the Police and not the Media.