Here's a side not considered.
If you're a teacher, which parent would you least want to meet? The bully's parent or the victim's. The bully's parent is often just as crazy and violent as the bully and have criminal records.
My sister's friend, a teacher, was physically threatened by a bully's parents and the cops did fuck all. She ended up changing schools for her own safety.
"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
-Mark Twain