Nine charged with irish teenagers death

Bonito wrote: »

QFT. They may bully you when you're younger but when you wise up as you get older and have a proper look at them you realise they're nothing but snivelling little fúcks protected in their little group. Catching them on their own they wont even raise their head to you. It always comes to the day where they will mess with the wrong person and have their arses handed back to them while they run home licking their wounds and crying to their mammy.

bullying doesn't stop just because people grow up.

it happens in the workplace.

It happens in families, prisons , armies ( to name but a few ) and it will probably even happen in the nursing home.

In terms of group bullying situations - individuals may as you say "not raise their head to you" when you meet them on their own..

in fact they may even be nice to you.

In modern PC speak they themselves are "victims" ... i.e. they are doing it to be part of the group..individually they have nothing against the victim of the bullying and might even like the person. they might not even realise the impact of their actions.

The victim ( i am using the term "victim" generally and not in reference to the teenager in the South Hadley case ) may have initially been welcomed or befriended by the local girls and therefore she may have believed that if she denied what was happening and went along as normal then things might go back to the way they once were..another target would be found etc.

the victim may have sought to be included by these groups and therefore was willing to put up with the bullying ( assuming it was non-physical bullying ).

Its very easy to say on an internet forum that all one has to do is stand up for yourself... bullying doesn't exactly do wonders for the self-confidence .. self-confidence which is needed to stand up for oneself.

Fighting Irish wrote: »

i'm also a huge fan of survival of the fittest

Is that a new reality TV program ?:)

bonerm wrote: »

We know nothing about school-yard bullying and minding your place over here when compared to the yanks.

Truthfully I feel its because of the School Uniform. Don't ever get rid of the Uniform.

This is endemic in the US school system, a side-effect of US capitalism where you're nobody unless you're the best sports star or the most attractive female. This is at best ignored, but often enforced by the teachers and administraton in the school.

Okay: Uniforms and Tamigotchis.

Im disappointed the school isn't accepting its fair blame in this.

djhunter30 wrote: »

Has anybody tried to do us a favour and smoother you in your sleep!!!

all right, sorry for having an opinion

i'd love to see the world in 1000 years when atm we're doing everything to save everyone/everything we can

djhunter30 wrote: »

Has anybody tried to do us a favour and smoother you in your sleep!!!

Banned

Here's a link to another article where it gives the pictures,names, and ages of the bullies, just uploaded 2 hours ago.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100330nine_students_charged_in_death/
The majority of the bullies were older than her, ranging from 16 to 18 years of age. It must have been so intimidating for her. This case makes me so angry and sad, I hope they get the maximum punishment by the courts whatever that is, but that still won't even be near enough punishment.
That said, I'm glad they have been publicly named and shamed, so that people can actually see the faces behind the story. Lets see them try to talk their way out of everything now,like the girl who bragged about being able to do it when the cops first interviewed her. Won't be so easy, when such a large population can finally see you for the bullies that you are, nomatter how you try to get out of it.

Terrible story and situation. Is it possible to petition the school or sign a book of condolences?

On another note :I wonder have any of the people on here saying that bullies are only cowards and the victims should stand up to them,have ever actually been bullied?

Any bullies (male) that I have ever encountered were always bigger/stronger/tougher than me. They had equally tough friends or older brothers.
Bullying needs to be reported and taken seriously by the person or people who are responsible for enforcing anti-bullying policies.

Its my opinion that people dont really care or want to get involved.

LittleBook wrote: »

Statement from Northwestern DA



For crying out loud, what's the point in teaching kids to report bullying if the "grown-ups" can't/won't deal with it!

The reason behind the adults doing sfa about the bullying lies with the bullies themselves. Captain of the football team, captain of the hockey team, honor roll students. The teachers would not dare question them, they had a free run in the school and this is what happened.

The poor girl was extremely pretty and obviously grabbed the attention of the high school jock much to the disdain of his groupies

each one of them should get life, because thats what price that poor girl paid. And for the two rapists, i hope the enjoy a suprise when they bend over to get the soap in jail, because they deserve to be on the recieving end.

Will people cop on. Bullying goes on in every school and that will never change. We don't know if this girl would have killed herself anyway. Thousands of kids and adults go through bullying every day but we dont see thousands of bullying related suicide. I really dont see the kids in this school as murderers.