Yeah. A Religious Private School.

How is this relevant? If it's a private school or public school, parents/schools are trying to juke the system to get the Ws on the scoreboards. If it's a private school or public, bullying is a thing. Someone being abused and then they are the ones to get the punishment when defending themselves by striking back is a complete bassackwards way of handling any problem like this.

It's possible that people who haven't spent time in private schools have the romantic notion that they're privileged havens where everything is easy.

It's also possible they were fishing for a connection to 'cover-up' corruption in a Religious institution. In which case they'd be right.