She had a pretty smile and all those assholes who made fun of her? You need glasses stupid!
Metmom those kids even bullied this child mom after she killed herself!!!
ARTH ping please!
Lawsuit needs to go after the morons who are causing death and emotional distress !
Even if it just grinds them down by requiring them to hire attorneys endlessly
BTW FReepers have a trivia question for you...
What actress had braces and glasses as a child, not very “cute” or the pretty girl in class and is now a beautiful actress after she ditched the braces on her teeth and glasses?
Who is she? Clue..her first name? Is similar to mine.
The parents are suing the school and not the bullies?
The school has deeper pockets, so yeah.
I’m sorry for their loss.
Public school life (and private school isn’t much better). Your peers become more important than your parents, and you stop listening to your parents.
Yeah, I know, all you "tough guys" who beat up other kids who tried to bully you will disagree. Go eat a lemon.
I had to talk my friend into getting her daughter out of a toxic school where the teacher was setting up the little girl to be harassed by the other students. Now that she is in a new school she is beginning to flourish.
Kids will always say mean things to each other, but this -
“Weeks after her tragic death, the alleged bullies still targeted her on social media”
- is inexcusable, those kids should be banned from using the internet until they’re 21.
There seems to be no remorse from the bullies. This is also very disturbing.
Children are capable of great cruelty and ugliness, more than we can ever imagine.
And it is hard for a parent to know everything that transpires in a child's world. We might know a little around the edges, but details in deep inside that world remain a mystery beyond what a child is even capable of communicating.
Soulless cretins.
This is a deeper symptom of society falling apart. The lack of real marriages and real dads in the home is showing. Can you imagine what a Greatest Generation dad would have waiting for his child if he found out he was bullying someone?
I don’t think schools are the problem, but they are certainly not the answer. There is no discipline in schools whatsoever and no accountability. They just continue on the laxness that is in most of these childrens’ homes.
Sadly, many of the teachers are also bullies. Being liberal feminazis and all...
“Bullying” has changed an awful lot since I was in school. Back then, bullying meant being jumped by kids after school and beaten, sometimes to unconsciousness. There were no suits, no lawyers. And the bullied kids survived and most thrived later.
Bullying should not be tolerated AT ALL.
It should be rooted out and ruthlessly excised—especially when it's this severe—and parents should be held responsible.
There's nothing I hate more than the inhuman treatment which some kids are subjected to by others. Just tragic, and unacceptable...
How horrible.
I wonder - were these “videos” circulated via social media? If so, the lesson should be obvious: don’t allow your kids unfettered access to social media. Very little that is good will come from it.
There were always little jerks that want to inflate their egos by beating up smaller kids, fatter kids or kids with braces or their arms in a sling. When I told my dad about my problems (3rd grade) he said "I don't condone fighting but, you have to stand up for yourself". It worked even if I did crack the cast. It left an impression on my tormentor and I never had a problem again because of the reputation I earned that day. My classmates still talked about that day at my HS graduation.
Fast forward 30 years. While teaching I noticed that the definition of "bullying" had been broadly expanded to include teasing and virtually anything that would hurt one's self esteem including not being allowed to sit at the "cool kid" table at lunch. The difference from the 50's to the 90's and on was that now you aren't expected to stand up for yourself. You are required to be a victim for the system to address the issue. The institution will punish you and probably not your tormentor if you do fend for yourself.
Students who feel bullied now have to go to a staff member and rely on the school institution to address the problem.
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I am wondering why the parents, who knew she was being “relentlessly bullied”, didn’t take matters into their own hands to get her either into a different school, or home-schooled.
Middle-school/Junior high is the most brutal two or three years of school. Kids are are crazy with hormones and social pressures and often turn into ruthless and cruel jerks. I'm of the opinion that most traumas and insecurities of the average person's lives come from their middle-school years. If you ever have a mind to homeschool your kids, the middle-school years would be the time to do it.
If her parents knew her suffering why did they make her keep attending.
Not to add to their grief but parents are to protect their kids.