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"Mean Girls". 15 year old girl commits suicide, nine students charged

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excerpt By Emily Bazalon From Slate.com
Nine South Hadley teenagers charged with bullying. possible felonies.

The criminal charges filed against nine students Monday in connection with the bullying of the 15-year-old high school student Phoebe Prince, who killed herself in January, took the town of South Hadley, Mass., by surprise.

Six teenagers were charged with felonies and saw their names and photos on the evening news. Three more were charged as juveniles.

That's a price for bullying that kids almost never pay. These charges will reverberate in this small town for a long time to come. For many people who live here, the charges challenge a fundamental conception of South Hadley as a nice, ordinary, middle-class small town.

As such, some residents were willing to work with school administrators to prevent further bullying in the future but were also ready to move on without assigning blame for Phoebe's death.

To others, who have criticized the high school's handling of the case, the tough prosecutorial stance toward these bullies is unexpected vindication. They think the town isn't ready to just move on. Now it won't.

As bino says, discuss.
 
that might be opening pandoras box. If that was my little girl she simply would have snatched one of them bitches by their nappy ass weaves and had at it.
 
IMO it's a shame that these teenagers' lives are being affected by criminal charges. But it is a bigger shame that Phoebe Prince felt so bullied that she killed herself.
It's time to set an example, I guess, and these kids need to stand up and pay the piper for their actions.
School systems can only really do so much, suspending/expelling bullies, providing counselling to kids.
Parents need to teach their kids what is and what is not ok in terms of how you treat other people. Teenagers can be ignorant and vicious though.
It's just sad.
 
she honestly should of stood up for herself. we've all been picked on or made fun of in life. you have to learn how to deal with it or put the "bullies" in their place
 
she honestly should of stood up for herself. we've all been picked on or made fun of in life. you have to learn how to deal with it or put the "bullies" in their place

Maybe she did in the beginning, maybe that wasn't enough. You can't blame the victim. It would be great if all teenagers, in fact all people, had enough self-esteem to make it through life without getting picked on, but they don't. That's why someone else should have made it clear to these bullies that it is NOT OK to harass little girls, even if you are a little girl yourself. It could have been a better learning experience for the aggressors, instead of them learning it the hard way.
 
I don't feel bad in the slightest for these girls, but I'm concerned that allowing the govt. to determine what constitutes felonious bullying isn't something I'm comfortable with. I'm alrright with them running healtcare or checking meat for ecoli, but not with these "subjective" experiences. This has to be handled by the school, which of course is a govt. entity....they are the ones that need to be told to nip this shit in the bud or else expel the students. Letting the legal system come in and put kids away for a couple years is opening pandoras box.
 
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