Bullying teens will be charged. NO sanctions against faculty or

[Paper Roses]

administration in the recent suicide of a young girl.

Last night I heard on the news that the kids involved with this horrible event will be charged. In a special segment, NECN reported that, even thought the teachers and administration were aware of the events, there will be no disciplinary action against any of them. Something is wrong here. I feel the administration has an obligation to notify parents and to take action.

Perhaps this young girl would be alive today if something was done by the school officials.

Maybe the report is not complete and perhaps I mis-heard. There is a new law about to be passed in MA, making bullying A crime BUT- there are no real teeth in the law. Knowing adults who let this kind of a situation go on are complicit. If they do not step in to end this madness, they should not be teaching our kids.

[Captain Hilts]

1. Irish Central [NYC]: Adults should be charged

http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/periscope/adults-should-be-charged-in-phoebe-prince-bullying-death-89480697.html

The charging of nine teenagers in the tragic suicide of Irish student Phoebe Prince in South Hadley Massachusetts is no more than what they deserved. Yet the failure to charge any adults at the school with at least negligence in her case is puzzling.

The heartbreaking evidence released by the prosecutor shows that adult supervisors witnessed and did nothing about the extreme bullying the 15-year-old girl underwent on her last days on earth. That included heavy bullying in the library before a supervisor who did absolutely nothing to stop it or report it. The entire school leadership, given that there were previous incidents of bad bullying at the school, deserves to be reprimanded and in some cases sacked over this tragic episode.

One can make no excuse for adults who watched and did nothing while a young girl was bullied to death hanging herself in a closet when it all became too much for her.

Her crime was being asked out on a date by a popular high school football player, which incensed the mean girls in the school, one of whom fancied the player herself.

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[TreasonousBastard]

2. It was on the news here, too, but these are criminal charges and...

I don't know what charges could be brought against the adults in charge.

The prosecutor may be limited in what he can do with the school here, but is there no one who could step in and start administrative actions against the administration and staff?

(Methinks the root of this could be the parents of the mean girls being the sort to raise a ruckus should their little darlings be upbraided by the school for anything.)

[redqueen]

3. Perhaps they should at least be fired?

For failing to protect the students?

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Who's going to fire them? The school board? Maybe it should, but...

school board politics can be bizarre. A lot of the teachers here on DU will be happy to regale us with more tales of dealing with outraged parents when their perfect little darlings get caught doing something. Or not doing something, like studying.

But, high school nastiness has been going on since before I was in high school, and it's enshrined in the popular culture now, so someone should be working on it.

Perhaps the answer will be in a lawsuit by the parents of the girl.

(If nothing else works-- sue the bastards.)