Phoebe Prince: Facebook Bullying Behind Teen's Suicide

I so agree with you.  I just found out about that young girl.  My heart absolutely breaks for what she must have endured and what her family must be going through.  All parents want the best for their kids.  They must have wanted a better life for their daughter by coming to America, just as my father did for me.  Instead, they experience the worse sort of agony.  VERY SAD! I see bullying as a three-fold problem:

• inadequate parenting,
• inefficient educational system,
• underwhelming laws.

If these issues are not address together, there never will be a solution. Any kids suspected of bullying, should be forced into court-ordered anger management class along with their parents.  Issues like that most likely spring from problems at home.  Regardless of the situation, both should attend anger classes at their own cost. The schools need to do a better job isolating bullies from their victims. Some kids are more susceptible than others to being bullied. I was a shy, unassuming kid.  I was often targeted.  My father didn't want me to get in trouble and not go to college. He always told me to report inscidents to teachers and to focus on my books.  I was never taught to fight back.  My naturally more assertive sister fought all of my battles. Today, I am a more assertive adult.  When my 9 yr old niece got bullied and came home depressed, I told her to muster all the anger she could and to hit back harder each time.  She did that and, thankfully, it stopped. She was lucky, though.  Many bullies are persistent and carry weapons.  Adult or child, we can't survive that! All three problems have to be addressed as a unit.

The problem with the way this played out and of all involved is no, they won't be haunted by their part in it,   for the rest of their lives. Maybe if they live that long sometime in middle age they might occationally remember their classmate who didn't get to experience life as an adult because their actions as worthless subhumans deprived her of the rest of her life. But I wouldn't count on it.

More likely they won't even remember her name...

No, this is not normal behavior, I raised 3 kids and not one of them, nor any of their friends ever conducted themselves like these. It seems some of the adults of tomorrow are a sad, sorry bunch and the comments left by many on this article is proof as to how bad it really is...

Hello everyone, I was bullied in grade school, junior high & high school by the same kind of mean girls, and I didn't even date anyone or have sex with any guys -- I am still a virgin today.  Those bullies should face the law, along with their parents -- prosecute the parents too -- the parents failed to correct & restrain their kids.  I was often the target of bullies.  It is criminal and cowardly behavior.  I totally agree -- let the parents be disciplined along with their kids.  Anger management is never enough.  You know, public exposure of the bullies and their parents is the best thing.  Why?  Because then everyone gets a chance to condemn their evil & wicked behavior.  The Puritans had it right!  They threw an offender in the stocks so that the criminal would repent and never do it again.  It was public humiliation!  And other Puritans learned from their bad example -- as behavior that should be avoided!  If they choose to repent, they must be given that chance too.  But for now, their names should be published.  As Proverbs in the Bible says, a good reputation is better than gold.  You can never recover from a bad reputation.  It's true!  And these bullies will find it true too.  Send them and their parents to jail, not just the bullies, but their parents too.  The parents need to be held accountable -- here in Kansas City metro area, some parents have held drinking parties at their houses with underage teens there & drinking -- so the police raided these parties and now the parents who did that are in jail.  Justice got served to them, after they had been serving drinks to teens. 

The principal should be fired and held accountable as an accomplice; from what I read this has been going on for a long time and these girls/boys taunted others.  The school board should be sued.  Does this district have police on campus? If so, something is terribly wrong in Hadley!

I have no doubt that the bullies who hounded Phoebe Prince feel no remorse whatsoever.  Once they get off these charges, imagine how wild they will run bullying others ("Remember what we did to Phoebe Prince?  What she got will seem like a picnic once we're through with you...").

Wish someone would post the names of the people who bullied her.  The world should know who these people are, maybe they would like a taste of their own medicine.