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Schoolgirl, 13, found hanged amid claims she was bullied because she was pretty
Daily Mail ^ | 2:24 PM on 10th March 2010 | Daily Mail Reporter

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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To: Niuhuru

Is the pic in the story her? If so there is more to the story about her unhappiness imo


61 posted on 03/10/2010 8:39:05 AM PST by fml
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To: Jaidyn
The girl got smart, so my granddaughter slapped her. My granddaughter got a week’s suspension; the bullies got a pass.

Hope you took her to the movies and the mall.

62 posted on 03/10/2010 8:39:15 AM PST by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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To: nina0113

No, high school was the worse. Middle school and college were some of the best.


63 posted on 03/10/2010 8:40:21 AM PST by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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To: Niuhuru

“It’s worse these days since the teachers don’t do anything.”

They are not allowed to, thanks to political correctness and obnoxious parents who push back against discipline.

Parents are ‘trained’ to not pipe up by their own kids with ‘but XYZ gets to do it’, and there is social ‘pressure’ to ‘conform’ to a ‘let them do what tey want’ mentality, which defines deviancy down.

In short, it takes courage to stand against the tide, and courage is in short supply compared with apathy and laziness.


64 posted on 03/10/2010 8:41:49 AM PST by WOSG (OPERATION RESTORE AMERICAN FREEDOM - NOVEMBER, 2010 - DO YOUR PART!)
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To: SoldierDad
My older sister had a heart condition and she used the elevator in the school. Yup. In 64 there was an elevator. For handicapped students. Anyway, I had an injured ankle and rode it with her for awhile. Three girls used to hold the door open until the class bell rang and they'd beat it into their class next door. We were late.

One day they challenged my sister to a fight in the field behind school. I put my sister on the bus and waited in the field. Not one of them showed. The next morning as they held the elevator door open, I asked them where they were as I waited and waited. Kids standing around listening started laughing. They left us alone after that.

65 posted on 03/10/2010 8:42:21 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: nina0113

I didn’t have a middle school back in the day so I went from Elementary to High School and missed that. Little did I know I would have two daughters who would have to suffer through it.


66 posted on 03/10/2010 8:42:34 AM PST by sarasota
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To: brytlea

If there’s any truth to the brain cancer connection to cell phones, these 12 year olds are in for some difficult times ahead.


67 posted on 03/10/2010 8:45:11 AM PST by sarasota
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To: MarineMom613; VastRWCon
Yeah...I had the same reaction. I have 4 daughters and they were all way too busy with high school athletics to wear much makeup at all. The first time I ever really saw them made up was for their Junior Proms.

Perhaps the Brits have different attitudes on this...

68 posted on 03/10/2010 8:51:41 AM PST by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: Dallas59

“I was amazed when I saw high school kids getting out of school. Tattoos, beards, body piercings”

No doubt. I was at a friend’s house recently, a fella I haven’t seen for years. We were going to grill supper and he sent me into the garage to get some charcoal and lighter fluid.

In the garage I saw a woman sitting on a couch rolling a joint. Stunning babe. Had a cigarette burning, tattoos, nose stud, boobs out to HERE, just flat out FINE. I smiled, said hello, grabbed the charcoal and fluid and went back to the back patio.

When I got there I said: “Dang, Terry... who is the fox in the garage”?

He got this look on his face and said: “That’s my niece. Why”?

“Your niece? She’s a knockout, man. Where is her old man? Probably shouldn’t leave that one alone. Liable to get jabbed”.

He still had that rueful look: “Wanna know something, dude? She’s 14 years old”.

I apologized and felt like an idiot, but No WAY is that girl only 14.

“Salright. She is, man. You believe that? Didn’t build em like that when we went to school”.

Unreal.


69 posted on 03/10/2010 8:52:18 AM PST by agromination ("Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station." Grand Moff Obama)
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To: JenB987

Further, too many people think high school is the end all be all of life. It’s not. There are so many good things that are away from that 4 year hell. So much to look forward to...but no one tells them that.


Best advice my Dad ever gave me, “Every year of your life seems like it is THE most important year, but the next year always diminishes it.”

I often thought of that during high school and was able to look beyond the social dramas typical of that time.


70 posted on 03/10/2010 8:58:50 AM PST by Spudx7
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To: Jaidyn

My daughter got groped and grabbed in class.

School tried to prevent her from reporting it.

We reported and filed charges including an investigation of the campus police and school administration.

The DA pressing assault charges and the principle resigned for health reasons.

But we had to really raise a stink about it, the school tried to cover it up then cover their rears.


71 posted on 03/10/2010 8:59:04 AM PST by Eagle Eye (The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Good for you.


72 posted on 03/10/2010 8:59:04 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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To: DJ MacWoW
And kids know it. A few years ago my husband was walking in the middle school hallway and saw a kid with his arm pulled back to punch another kid. My husband (who was a 3 time All-American heavyweight wrestler in college-his size and strength can be intimidating to some) grabbed the kid’s elbow to stop him and the kid snarled, “You can’t touch me. My Mom will sue!”

Thankfully, my husband is not the type to be intimidated by a snotty, 13 yr old bully. I suppose some teachers are.

73 posted on 03/10/2010 9:07:21 AM PST by Spudx7
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To: DM1

“Thirteen year-olds can be the meanest, most vicious people in the world.”

particularly females - very cruel indeed
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I was shocked when my wife told me that middle school girls are vicious to each other, but I saw it for myself when my daughters got there. Fortunately, they both have pretty good self-esteem, but my jaw dropped on more than one occasion...

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74 posted on 03/10/2010 9:07:57 AM PST by jagusafr (Kill the red lizard, Lord! - nod to C.S. Lewis)
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To: autumnraine

It’s hard to imagine where a 12 year old goes without adult supervision, that there is not a phone. Sorry, I think we give kids all sorts of technology which allows bad behavior and then we wonder what happened.


75 posted on 03/10/2010 9:18:58 AM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: Spudx7
And kids know it.

Oh yes they do! And these parents are in for it because the brats will expect Mom and Dad to keep bailing them out of hot water. I think that's called "just desserts". :-)

76 posted on 03/10/2010 9:23:02 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: sarasota

That does worry me. I walk in the mornings and during the school year there is a group of girls who look to be 6th or 7th grade. They all stand out and wait for the bus, talking on their cell phones (texting). Not sure why they can’t talk to each other, and not sure why they have cell phones but whatever. I’m sure the peer pressure to have one is difficult to resist.


77 posted on 03/10/2010 9:24:25 AM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: brytlea

I’ve heard and read enough to convince me to wear an ear bud all the time. Bluetooths are even worse as the antenna is right up against the skull and the antenna is the source of the waves (microwaves?) The film Thank You for Smoking features a guy who works for tobacco to convince folks (including Congresscritters) that there is no danger to smoking. A real flim flam man who loses his job when the science proves he’s wrong and lawsuits ensue. Never mind, he goes to work for a cell phone company and his sales pitch goes something like: “Memorize this line: there is no scientific evidence to prove any link between cell phones and brain cancer.”


78 posted on 03/10/2010 9:33:11 AM PST by sarasota
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To: dead
Typical British tabloid spin.

Yeah, but some Freepers are buying it hook, line and sinker. Never mind the basis is internet posts from "friends."

79 posted on 03/10/2010 9:35:02 AM PST by TankerKC (Law Enforcement IS Big Government.)
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To: dead
"You're just saying that because you're on their side and you hate me too!"

LOL...I assume you have/had a teenaged daughter?

80 posted on 03/10/2010 9:37:26 AM PST by TankerKC (Law Enforcement IS Big Government.)
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