The Bullying of Phoebe Prince

What bothers me is that these kids are going off and saying shit like "Irish slut/trash..." What is there currently a big hatred towards Irish people these days? She wasn't a nerd or a geek or a freak...
 
[quote name='JolietJake']Hatred for the Irish? What is this, the 19th century?[/QUOTE]


just tell that to this guy and see what he does to you with a paper clip :)
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[quote name='JolietJake']Hatred for the Irish? What is this, the 19th century?[/QUOTE]

I totally hate the Irish. My grandfather and father handle their alcohol much better than me.
 
I think this case is really going to change the face of bullying in America. It seems like the media is finally fucking getting it. It's not about violent videogames or death metal, it's about the prison-like subculture of certain schools.

Every time they put those yearbook photos up, it's another reminder that the bullies looked like regular, happy, clean-cut kids. It's easy to pawn off a tragedy when it's committed by trenchcoat-wearing misfits bearing shotguns, it's alot harder to own up to the fact that the most prevalent villians in todays schools look like they just walked out of a casting call for "Happy Days"
 
The verbal assaults described by witnesses in the court papers include Longe "screaming at [Ms. Prince] from across the library," calling her at different times an "Irish whore" and "slut."
Longe is also accused of throwing an empty "Monster Drink" can at Prince from a moving car, calling her a "whore" and laughing. The witness told police Prince cried as she walked home.
One witness told police, "She [Ms. Prince] definitely didn’t want to fight with the girls in the school. She just wanted to keep to herself and keep things the way they were. She wanted people to stop picking on her, to stop being bullied."
Court papers say Mullins told other students she was going to "beat Phoebe up" for dating her sometime boyfriend, and that Prince "needed to watch out at break." A witness told police Prince told administrators she "was scared and wanted to go home," but then came back to class saying nothing would be done and "she was still going to get beat up." She asked another student what to do, saying she didn’t know how to fight. The student told her to stay with her friends and avoid Mullins.
On one occasion, witnesses said Mullins was told Prince was in the bathroom and went in after her. Prince "saw Flannery and got out of there really fast." Mullins is reported to have called Prince an ‘’Irish slut" and a "whore," yelling at her in the hallways, causing Prince to cry, and leading one alarmed student to tell a teacher. Mullins said to have made demeaning remarks on Facebook, such as "I used to like Irish girls and now I know some of them are slutty."
Velazquez also is said in the court papers to have called Prince a "whore" and told her to stay away from "people’s men." One witness said he saw Velazquez "going off" on Prince, calling her "a stupid bitch and other names."
Velazquez allegedly was angry because Prince had been seen talking to her boyfriend, defendant Austin Renaud. Velazquez received a one-day suspension after a teacher witnessed her confronting Prince "with an attitude." Another student told police that after Prince’s suicide, Velazquez said she "wasn’t the only person that caused Phoebe’s death and that she didn’t care that she was dead."
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http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1245831&srvc=rss

Nearly three months after 15-year-old Prince took her own life after a slew of relentless bullying attacks, the president of the South Hadley teachers union yesterday issued a strident defense of high school staffers, saying many were “shocked” to learn of the extent of the teen’s alleged abuse.
"Some in the media have painted a picture of South Hadley High School as a school out of control - a place where everyone knew of the bullying and no one did anything about it," Bill O’Neil, head of the South Hadley Education Association and a teacher at the high school, wrote in a letter to the Herald. "That image is just plain wrong."
O’Neil also blamed the media’s "nasty tone" for the emergence of cyber-vigilantes who have hurled threats and vicious taunts at the accused bullies.
But O’Brien said it’s the lack of leadership within the schools that has made South Hadley the focus of nationwide media scrutiny. He questioned why the school committee hasn’t held emergency meetings to address the district attorney’s findings that Prince’s abuse was common knowledge in the high school.
"Why hasn’t that happened?" O’Brien said. "Why hasn’t anyone done that? Are they clueless?"
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http://news.bostonherald.com/news/r...y_school_officials_blasted_for_blaming_media/

The administrators care more about keeping their jobs, the reputation of the school, and the well-being of the bullies then they do about the welfare of vulnerable students.

I can answer O'Brien's question. When ongoing torment like this can occur, the school is obviously out-of-control. Circle-the-wagons teacher's unions are out-of-control. And the administrators are beyond clueless. They're brain-dead.
 
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