Posted on 01/26/2010 11:55:01 AM PST by Sopater
While police in South Hadley, Mass., investigate whether cyber bullying was to blame for the suicide last week of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince, the teenager who had recently emigrated from Ireland suffered a final indignity – disparaging remarks believed to be posted by classmates to a Facebook page created in her memory.
Prince died on Jan. 14 after a rough freshman year. Friends and school officials told MyFoxBoston.com that Prince had been picked on and taunted since moving to Massachusetts last fall.
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Kids who are homeschooled miss out on all that wonderful “socialization”. /sarc
I have always thought that hell would remind me of Junior High School. It is a horrible age and a horrible existence. The injection of hormornes in crowded circumstance can truly be a hellish experience.
This isn’t the first generation to be cruel. They just have more tools at their disposal.
Kids have always been mean.
This article got pulled yesterday by some uptight mod that said the “comments were too tasteless.” These tame comments were merely people recalling their bully stories and how they handled it. Hopefully this same clueless mod is out getting coffee right now.
I could see a parent walking into the school with a machine gun.
Why that may be true, the reality is that kids today are so coddled that ANY infringement on their precious self- esteem can't be handles.
Everyone gets a trophy, everyone is #1.
Question: How are kids supposed to better themselves when they're never allowed to fail?
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Nope. Not me.
I tend to blame the parents of the kid who’s being bullied.
Even more than the bullies themselves.
Perhaps you’re right... but have they alwyas been mean enough to keep kicking the poor girl after she’s dead?
If the comments were posted, then everyone knows who the bullies are.
What is this world coming to? Are we really raising a generation of monsters?
In reference (partly) to this...
Prince died on Jan. 14 after a rough freshman year. Friends and school officials told MyFoxBoston.com that Prince had been picked on and taunted since moving to Massachusetts last fall.
No, we are not raising any more of a "generation of monsters" than they were 50 years ago... LOL... (at least not in regards to this kind of cruel teasing and mean treatment to other kids...).
I mean, I came from the South, complete with my heavy southern accent and moved up "north" (but to the Pacific Northwest) and I was always the one who stood out and was asked where my "six-guns" were and did I bring my horse with me... LOL...
And kids even further back than that were mean and cruel and picked on other kids and always have. It's no different now than it was before (in regards to that particular kind of thing).
However, there are looser morals these days, and in addition to those things, we see plenty of sexual activity among the young kids these days that we never did before. That's different. In addition, it seems that we see more murders these days, too and more gang activity.
But, the basic meanness and the cruelty of kids to other kids has always been around.
And we have taught children to be ever so much more sensitive....
Anyway, sorry for the girl, but how about just closing her FB account when she was alive? Where were her parents?
It’s just a shame that kids these days are ill-equipped to handle stress and teasing. You couple that with the fact that defending one’s self is frowned upon in academia, and is often rewarded with expulsion/suspension for both parties involved, and you’ll see why some kids feel so helpless these days. Kids spend way too much time communicating via electronic devices, and too little time learning about life, and it’s ups and downs. Maybe if this girl confronted the bully off school grounds, and beat the ever living crap out of her, this nonsense would stop. I seriously weep for the future of our youth. Bad parenting, unrealistic educators, modern technology, and an overall apathy toward life is what’s dooming them.
Kids have always been mean.
Yes, they have, which is a good argument for "original sin" as the Bible tells us... LOL...
You haven't seen "mean" until you see kids get mean with other kids... and it doesn't take any training for that to happen.
unlike the adults here who hide their glee about teddy’s death?
I'm a little baffled. Could you explain?
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