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a 15 year old girl to commit suicide. Phoebe Prince, a recent Irish immigrant, was routinely bullied at South Hadley High School (Massachusetts) with text messages and through online social media. The emergence of the bullying came after Prince, a freshman, began dating an upperclassman at her new high school. Other high school girls resented Prince for dating an older football player. Most of the bullying was done on the popular social networking site, Facebook. Northwestern District Attorney, Elizabeth Scheibal states that Phoebe’s suicide was “the culmination of a nearly three-month campaign of verbally assaultive behavior and threats of physical harm” (Goldman). It was mainly through social media that Phoebe was bullied, although reports

Bullying is very common in most schools in the United States Around three million United States students miss class every month just because of bullying. When Alex Libby shared his story he gave a voice to millions of children who suffer from bullying, because he shared his story it changed the way most people think of the effects of bullying. An example of bullying is there was a girl named Kelby Johnson who was mocked by teachers and students because she was a lesbian, she had to stop playing basketball because her ignorant teammates didn’t want to be near her. Alex Libby is one of the 13 million school children in the United States that is being bullied. Alex’s mom said “ Kid’s back in the day, could go home and be safe you can’t do that a lot now, now you can get bullied online.”

Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among people of all ages, but mostly school-age children. Society has been aware of bullying since around 1693, but it was not viewed as a real problem until the 1970s. “While overall incidents of school violence, such as assault and theft, have declined in the last decade, bullying is on the rise.” (qtd in Tyre) The percentage of middle and high school students that have been victimized by bullying went up from 14 percent in 2001 to 32 percent in 2009. (Tyre)

In “Phoebe Prince: Should School Bullying Be a Crime?”, an article written by journalist Jessica Bennet addresses school bullying, the outcomes and the consequences that bullies deserve or not. Above all, this article aims the spotlight on bullying, a 15-year-old who took her own life due to harassment, torment, rumors, physical threats all leading it to being bullied by well-known good students. In any case, the process of being bullied has never been taken into consideration nor importance in the school system or by society in general. “It’s even gotten better over the past decade says Dan Olweus, a leading bullying expert”. However, bullying just does not disappear, it is still an issue that humankind does not have any diligence to the cause

The novel explores the damaging effects of bullying, peer pressure and the dynamics of group interaction within teenagers in a modern day society.

Have you ever been a target of an individual’s cruelty and hatred? It does not necessarily have to be physical, but more like being verbally degraded or publicly humiliated. The effects bullying can have on its victims is something that may last throughout their lives, or something that may end their life(Braithwaite, Hyde, Pope, 2010).We all are well aware of childhood bullying but as evidence shows bullying does not stop on the

Cyber bullying and face-to-face bullying are to major concerns in today’s society, the movie Mean Girls and the novel Destroying Avalon have themes about bullying in them. The texts show us how more people can be affected by certain types of bullying as well as how it can change behaviour and how bullying can build up to physical violence.

Hope Witsell was a 13-year-old who grew up in Sundance, Florida. Her only crime was forwarding a nude photo of herself to a boy she liked. Another girl borrowed the boy’s phone, found the image and forwarded it to other students. And so, the image found its way to a lot of other students in her school and in other schools. The result – taunting and bullying from her peers at Beth Shields Middle School, with insults such as "whore" and

The six teens, two boys and four girls, who bullied Phoebe did a lot of . “What they ended up doing was statutory rape, violation of civil rights with bodily injury, and harassment,” stated a reporter for Time.com. As bullying expert Jeffrey Benjamin says “You will never reach higher ground if you are always pushing others down.” The teens who were responsible for all of this tried to make deals with the prosecutor. The more serious consequences they had to face had been dropped. The names of these teens were: Sean Mulveyhill, Ashley Longe, Kayla Narey, Sharon Chanon

Yet the notion that bullying may have caused the massacre at Columbine High School is a chilling one, as it lessens the blame of the attack on the perpetrators themselves and further increases it on the students who actually bullied them as well as on the school officials who did nothing to discourage it. Elysa R. Safran writes in the Journal of Emotional Abuse:

The attacks came to a head on January 14, 2010 when the perpetrators abused her in multiple parts of the school and through a canned drink at her head on the way home from school. As a direct consequence of her peer’s actions, she took her life at the young age of 15. The situation surrounding Phoebe Prince could

Lindsey Ames, a soon to be high school freshman, views her new school as an opportunity to start over. With the help of her new established friends, Teeny and Grouper, she believes that a change in her wardrobe will eliminate her image that was so haunting and discomforting in the past. Lindsey is successful for a while until her worst possible nightmare appears, her long-time adversary, Avery. The same spoiled bully that ruined her whole middle school life, now reminds Lindsey of her place. As the book continues, the main character’s coping strategies begin to be visible to the reader. Lindsey and her friends, without including the adults, struggle to manage the bullying. Despite this immutable problem, there are other things on Lindsey’s mind. She wants to join the National Honor Society, she wants to take Italian, she wants a cute boy to ask her out, but most of all she wants to change her reputation. However, this does not happen so quickly. As tensions rise, Lindsey faces the complex nature of bullying, and experiences the ups and downs of life as a high school teen.

AJ Enerson If you were a teacher would you have stood up for Phoebe Prince, or looked the other way ? One in four teachers are alright with bullying according to dosomething.org. If just one person stood up she might still be with us today. Phoebe had it terrible, people would cyberbully her when she was at home. When she was walking through the halls at school people would throw trash at her and `call her names. How can everyone put up with this? The answer is neither one could.

Phoebe Prince died in an apparent suicide, after incessant cyberbullying by classmates (ABC News). Alexis Pilkington was a popular athlete, a well-liked star who had already landed a soccer scholarship to college (Shaw). But none of that stopped the 17-year-old from becoming the target of nasty online comments (Shaw). Although the family doesn’t directly blame the internet bullying for the death of their daughter, no

Bullies in School Kathleen Berger 1 Bullying was once commonly thought to be an unpleasant but normal part of child's play, not to be encouraged, of course, but of little consequence in the long run. However, developmental researchers who have looked closely at the society of children consider bullying to be a very serious problem, one that harms both the victim and the aggressor, sometimes continuing to cause suffering years after the child has grown up. 2 One leading researcher in this area is Dan Olweus, who has studied bullying in his native country of Norway and elsewhere for twenty-five years. The cruelty, pain, and suffering that he has documented in that time are typified by the examples of Linda and Henry: Linda was systematically