I agree, but bullying in schools has made generations of kids miserable. Adolescence is hard enough, but to be terrified to go to school because you know you'll be the butt of endless jokes and physical abuse is a living nightmare. If you're different, don't fit in, you get picked on, and it starts way back in kindergarten. The parents failed to deal with their son's predicament, but they had to know he wasn't happy. If he didn't want to talk to them, and most kids prefer not to confide stuff like this to their parents, they should have gone down to the school and had a talk with the guidance counselor. Usually, they know what's going on. And that's another thing. Why did the school allow a climate where the only remedy these kids could come up with was killing as many of their classmates as possible? I hope somebody sued the school.
Are you forgetting the police had already gone out to talk to the parents because their little angels were bullying other kids?