One of the kids I went to school with (we'll call him D) was actually killed by his bullies when a fight (that he was provoked into for an amount of time that no one knows except the bully) lead to him having complications with his heart condition. The bullies would always challenge him to fights, which he would turn down until the one time he finally got fed up with it and accepted their challenge. They met up, it was him against 5 or 6 guys, one was "fighting" (really, it was just D standing there taking taunts) while the others circled them, one of whom was recording this on his phone. When the bully finally punched him in the chest, it caused him to have a heart attack and collapse. At this point, the bully just kicked him while he was down a couple times. As soon as he realized what happened, instead of doing the right thing and CALLING THE FUCKING POLICE, they panicked and ran. A few hours later, D's body was found.
The school's reaction was a single announcement about what happened the next day and then sweep the incident under the damn rug (though admittedly some good came out of it when the amount of bullying went down). The bully got six months of house arrest and two years of probation. The local news was also happy to run a quote where he said that he looked forward to playing soccer the next year when he got back into school (and as a journalism student, I find this part to be disgusting).
This is bad enough on its own, but here's another incident from the same year that was far less embarrassing to the school:
Skip forward several months. When one of the school jocks (we'll call him G) killed himself in a drunk driving incident (drinking at a party, driving 30 over the speed limit in a 35 zone, running off the road and flipping the car, all without wearing a seat belt), the school's reaction was to spend a fucking week mourning one of their star soccer players, hailing him as a hero. The school excused students that went to his funeral (which they didn't do for D's funeral). Some of his friends got the school's backing to print off window stickers that said "In memory of G, buckle up." I wouldn't have a problem with this if not for the fact that wearing his seat belt wasn't the issue, but the school can't let their "hero" be known to be an underage drinker! Oh, but they'll sweep a case of bullying so bad that someone fucking died under the rug and do what they can to pretend it never happened.
Need I also add that this school thought (and likely still thinks) that No Child Left Behind was a great idea and the fact that they laid off three math teachers to HIRE A FOOTBALL COACH?