Posted on 03/10/2010 7:46:39 AM PST by Niuhuru
An investigation has been launched into the death of a 13-year-old schoolgirl amid claims she hanged herself after being bullied because she was pretty. Poppy Bracey was found in her bedroom last week after returning home from her Manchester school. The teenager was taken to hospital but later died. Council officials said today they are looking into allegations Poppy was being bullied in the run up to the death.
Friends at 1,000-pupil Lowton High School, in Leigh, posted a series of messages on internet sites claiming Poppy was being picked on. One, at the specialist sports college where former pupils include Ting Tings singer Katie White, said: 'This poor girl was apparently being bullied at Lowton High School and has sadly ended her own life by hanging herself.' Another said: 'Why would someone want to bully her?? Apart from jealousy.'
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“For many, ‘mean girl’ practice starts early”
“...Research shows that mothers will respond forcefully if their young daughters bite or hit someone, Simmons says. But verbal bullying is different.
Very often, moms say, Thats just girls being girls. But if you make light of it and dont intervene, youre giving your daughter permission, she says.
Coloroso says its imperative to acknowledge bullying regardless of age because the behavior often progresses.
She described a case last year in Washington state in which a group of sixth-grade girls made an animated video set to a Hannah Montana tune and put it on YouTube. Titled Top Six Ways to Kill Piper, the video showed two girls shooting their classmate, shoving her off a cliff, poisoning her, and making her kill herself. The perpetrators, 11 and 12 years old, were disciplined by their school, but no criminal charges were filed.
If we dont handle it in grade school, Coloroso says, it only gets worse.”
Sad thing, there are days when I look around at the adults, and wonder if some of them have not left middle school....
No, I have an 8 year old daughter who tries to act like she's sixteen. She's going to be a lot of work.
“She is also a very sensitive young woman in her temperament. Not in an over sensitive manner, just a sweet mild mannered personality. In other words, she doesn’t have it in her to be a bi#*h like some of the other girls who attended her school.”
I swear, I know how she feels.
LOL
Gave my kids martial arts schooling = sort of the Chuck Norris school of interpersonal relationships.
The only rule I had was - talk means *ick. If they touch you - have at ‘em, I’ll back you 110%.
Problem solved instantly and for the next 4 years....
They are older now, one has children, the other soon to be married.
And my baby? Just got his discharge from the Corps.
Yeah...unreal.
Well the little bully punks were lucky she did not completely snap....
We have always encouraged her. Her personality type will make her a great wife, mother and friend. While the girls who did the bullying to her, if unrepentant, will most likely live very miserable lives if they carry their attitudes and personalities with them into adulthood. Actions and attitudes always catch up with them in the end, eventually.
yes my cousins filled me in on that wonderful demographic
i am dreading when my daughter hits that age.
All I know is that I am fed up with the school systems letting it happen. This country and the West in general are collapsing because we have allowed all of this to go on. You don’t hear about bullying in Chinese or Japanese schools. You don’t hear about the stuff going on these days in Asian countries, or India.
I know that she will end up doing well in life, but it’s not enough. School should be a haven, same as the home. It’s for learning. Our students aren’t learning anything because they are on constant alert, hoping that the pigs who bully other students don’t notice them. It’s revolting.
You may not hear about bullying going on in Japanese
schools but it is common as is suicide from the pressure.
You calling me a liar, man? I’m sorry. I didn’t see you there. Were you hiding in the bushes?
I don't know about other countries, but bully-free schools exist in this country. I know, I've attended them, and send my children to them.
They're private schools.
I don't know about other countries, but bully-free schools exist in this country. I know, I've attended them, and send my children to them.
They're private schools.
Not all of us would sue. Our sons have our permission to defend themselves. They know that they better have done a good job to get the parents called into the office. But, we believe in the “defend properly once and the job is done” scenario.
Perhaps. But all I do know is that it’s not something that is bragged about by the parents and I am sure the schools try to keep it in check.
That's because you have common sense. Not everyone is a Freeper. :-)
I really have no idea. We’re going to start losing a lot of bright minds though. Another poster mentioned that a brilliant kids killed himself, he was supposedly as smart as Einstein and when I think about it, this girl likely had a lot going for her too.
It’s really no wonder that the Chinese are doing better. It’s considered a disgrace if a child acts out in the school environment. It’s utterly warped.
You are uninformed. Just google "bullying Japan" and read some of the articles.
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