NINE High School Students Indicted In Bullying Case Of Phoebe Prince
What Parents & Schools Should Know: Listen To NPR Podcast
Nine Students INDICTED
"Some kinds of bullying can start to seem to normal to us"
Nine Students INDICTED
"Some kinds of bullying can start to seem to normal to us"
As reported extensively in the press, Phoebe Prince, a student who moved with her family
from Ireland to western Massachusetts and attended South Hadley High School committed suicide from hanging herself after being bullied by fellow classmates.
Check out NPR podcast below which is a quick round-up of the major issues surrounding this explosive story,interviewing both Bridget Berman, the ninth grader who authored "Dorie Witt's Guide To Bullying" before entering high school, and Emily Brazelon, reporting on bullying in an informative recent multiple-story series forSlate (see story below podcast for links).
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The podcast below is from NPR's "The Take-Away's" week-long series Getting Schooled with John Hockenberry and Celeste Headlee. Link Here. Podcast below in red runs 7 minutes:
In addition, Slate has an informative series on bullying, aptly titled "BULL-E 2010: The New World Of Online Cruelty" by Emily Brazelon with link here. Topics include:
- Suicide in South Hadley Nine teenagers have been charged with
