9 Teenagers Are Charged After Classmate’s Suicide

Felony indictments are a sharp legal response to the problem of adolescent bullying.

9 Teenagers Are Charged After Classmate’s Suicide

It's indeed outrageous that the administrators did nothing. However -- thinking back to my own experiences with school bullies 30 years ago, and a similarly ineffective school system -- it's certainly not surprising.

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She was Irish, probably a protestant, in Catholic Massachusetts. She was a 15 year old girl arriving late and friendless in an insular middle school. You remember the experience. She sought acceptance. She was exploited and then vilified as a direct result.

There can be no apology profound enough.

We are willing to defrock a Pope for less.