School bullying in the digital age can have tragic consequences. But should it be a crime?
It started with rumors, a love triangle, and a dirty look in a high-school bathroom. Soon jokes about an "Irish slut" cropped up on Facebook, and a girl’s face was scribbled out of a class photo hanging up at school. One day, in the cafeteria, another girl marched in, pointed at her, and shouted "stay away from other people’s men." A week later, as the girl walked home, a car full of students crept close. One kid hurled a crumpled soda can out the window, followed closely by shrieks of "whore!"
This is the conundrum of Phoebe Prince, the 15-year-old South Hadley
If your children had behaved like this, how would you want them punished? Certainly a proper grounding would be in order; computer privileges revoked. Detention, yes—maybe even suspension. Or what about 10 years in jail? Now what if we told you that the girl had gone home after the soda-can incident and killed herself—discovered by her little sister, hanging in a stairwell. Now which punishment fits the crime?
Bulling in school have always been a problem in all schools that have led into teens suicide. Many cases have been found where many childrens kill them selfs because of emotional downs that they have in school. If bulling is happening in your school, dont be scared to denounce it!.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/04/phoebe-prince-should-bullying-be-a-crime.html
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