When my son was 15 back in the early 1990's, I found him in the basement with a knife in his hands and a strange look on his face. That's when he told me he was contemplating Suicide because he was tired of being bullied at school. After my wife tried taking him to school to let them know, she came home intimidated herself after being harassed by the school bullies herself, and no one at the school seemed interested.  Maybe they were afraid themselves, we don't know. When I found out about what happened, I called the school myself telling them that I am pulling him out of school. They said, "You can't do that" and I said, watch me. Well, he never went back and nothing ever became of it. When he turned 16, he got his GED and he has been a success ever since.