Behind Bullying: Why Kids Are So Cruel

[Jazzy]

According to reports by fellow students, the last few months of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince's life were filled with unrelenting torment.





Classmates at the Irish immigrant's Massachusetts high school called Prince a whore and an Irish slut, students said. They defaced her school photo with obscene drawings, sent her threatening text messages and whispered - or shouted - insults in school hallways. On Jan. 14, witnesses say, she was taunted by a group of classmates in the library and hit with a can of Red Bull thrown from a moving car. That afternoon, Prince went home and hanged herself with a scarf.





Nine students have now been charged with harassment and other bullying-related crimes, spurring national debate about the role of the justice system and the culpability of the school administration. But Prince's case raises another, more elemental question: Why are kids so cruel?



Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/behindbullyingwhykidsaresocruel

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Poor girl, kids can be ruthless. She shouldnt have killed herself though.

 

[StevenF50]

^Agreed



Anyway I am a kid and I am sort of a geek but no one picks on me because I also have the cool factor best of both, YIPPEE, Theres two people in my class that get picked on one of them farts all day and it takes him 30 minutes to write the date and he is really slow and one of them has had swine flu 6 times and has had nits 5 times and only washes herself once a year, it makes me puke.

 

[Novax]

Disgusting, I hate bullying, they should stop being so lenient

 

[StevenF50]

Yeah well someone that gets picked on in our school likes getting picked he likes chasing us around trying to kill us because we called him names, he even said it was a good game.