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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Is the pic in the story her? If so there is more to the story about her unhappiness imo
Hope you took her to the movies and the mall.
No, high school was the worse. Middle school and college were some of the best.
“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.
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.
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.
If there’s any truth to the brain cancer connection to cell phones, these 12 year olds are in for some difficult times ahead.
Perhaps the Brits have different attitudes on this...
“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.
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.
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.
Good for you.
Thankfully, my husband is not the type to be intimidated by a snotty, 13 yr old bully. I suppose some teachers are.
“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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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.
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". :-)
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.
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.”
Yeah, but some Freepers are buying it hook, line and sinker. Never mind the basis is internet posts from "friends."
LOL...I assume you have/had a teenaged daughter?
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