Phoebe Prince

Phoebe Prince Bullying Suicide Lawsuit Settled For $225,000

AP | Posted 12.28.2011

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NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- A lawsuit brought by the parents of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old Irish immigrant in Massachusetts who committed suicide after re...

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Are You A Slut Shamer?

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 01.21.2012

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I'm not saying girls should be "like boys" (whatever that means) or that I think promiscuity is a good thing. I'm saying there should be the same standard of behavior for both sexes.

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'Country's Toughest Anti-bullying Law" Marks Anniversary Of Student Suicide

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 11.23.2011

NEWARK, N.J. — Does one second-grader saying another has "cooties" rise to the level of bullying? That is just one question emerging from new le...

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Teen's Vengeful Facebook Bullying Turns Into Sentence For 'Child Pornography'

Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Social Media, Youth, Australia, Cyberbullying, Bullying, Teens, Australian Schools, Sharon Chanon Velazquez, Juvenile Justice, Teen Bullying, Teen Sex, Juvenile Detention, Facebook, Phoebe Prince, Education News

A 17-year-old boy in Perth, Australia has been sentenced to 12 months in juvenile detention for pressuring underage girls to perform sexual acts on a ...

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Why One District Has No Instances Of Bullying, But Another Has 4,000

Posted 09.18.2011

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New anti-bullying legislation popping up around the country may need retooling, new reports show. The nationwide crackdown on bullying in the wake ...

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Real-Life Burn Book Triggers District Investigation

Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Cyberbullying, Bullying, Sharon Chanon Velazquez, Bullies, Facebook, Facebook Bullying, School Bullying, Phoebe Prince, Texas Schools, Education News

A Burn Book like the one featured in the movie Mean Girls that singles out students and calls them names has led school officials in Texas to launch a...

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Facebook, Time Warner, States All Ganging Up On Bullies

Posted 09.11.2011

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Facebook and Time Warner announced today that they will partner to fight cyberbullying, a problem that has plagued both children and adults. The co...

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Bully Of Teen Who Hanged Herself: "I'm Not A Mean Person" [VIDEO]

Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Shanon Chanon Velazquez, Teen Bully, Cyberbullying, High School Bullying, Bullying, Teen Suicide, Teen Bullying, Massachusetts, South Hadley High School, Massachusetts Schools, Phoebe Prince Case, Phoebe Prince Suicide, Phoebe Prince, Phoebe Prince Facebook, Video, Education News

Sharon Chanon Velazquez, one of six teens charged in the Massachusetts bullying case of a 15-year-old Irish immigrant who committed suicide last Janua...

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5 Teens Strike Plea Deal In Phoebe Prince Bullying Case

AP | By DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 06.27.2011

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BOSTON -- Five teenagers have agreed to plead guilty to a minor charge in the bullying of a 15-year-old Massachusetts girl who later committed suicide...

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Teen Strikes Plea Deal In Phoebe Prince Bullying Case

AP | By STEPHANIE REITZ | Posted 06.26.2011

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HARTFORD, Conn. -- One of six teens charged in the notorious Massachusetts bullying case of a 15-year-old Irish immigrant who committed suicide has st...

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There Have Always Been Bullies

Kristen Houghton | Posted 11.17.2011

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The authorities in education seem to feel bullying is an epidemic and "indicative of the violent times in which we live." They make it sound as if bullying is some new byproduct of the 21st century. It isn't.

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Phoebe Prince's Suicide: What REALLY Happened?

Slate Magazine | | Daniel Gross | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you've read about the death of Phoebe Prince and its aftermath in People magazine or the Boston Globe or Boston Herald or the Irish Independent, or...

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Verbal First Aid: Healing the Scars of Bullying

Judith Simon Prager, PhD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Bullying, Bullying Problem, Bullying and Children, Dealing With Bullies, Bullies, Bullying Advice, How to Deal With Bullies, Parenting, Cyber Bullying, Phoebe Prince, Help for Bullies, Healing the Scars of Bullyin, Healthy Living News

In this short article I'll offer six strategies to help the bullied child begin to recover from its scars. Vicious words cause much of the devastating harm of bullying, but words can also heal.

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Bullying From the Inside Out

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.17.2011

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We need to listen to our own intolerance and prejudice and to the hatred that kills through taunting. We won't learn anything about any of it unless we understand why we hate and from where it comes.

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Two So-Called Sluts, Two Deaths, Only One Uproar

Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Phoebe Prince, Slut, Hope Witsell, Cyberbullying, Deval Patrick, Bullying, Sexual Harassment, Slut-Bashing, Women's Rights, Healthy Living News

Two high school girls were relentlessly harassed as "sluts" by their peers in school and committed suicide as a result: Hope Witsell in rural Florida and now Phoebe Prince in South Hadley, MA.

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Grow Empathy and Cut the Roots of Bullying

Deborah Schoeberlein | Posted 11.17.2011

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The roots of bullying grow strong when mindfulness, and the qualities of empathy, compassion and kindness are weak. It's much harder to bully when you see other people as "people like me."

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Arresting Teenagers Doesn't Solve Gender Pressures

Debra Chasnoff | Posted 11.17.2011

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It is completely understandable why there has been so much pressure on government authorities in South Hadley, Massachusetts to find someone to blame ...

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Bullying: We All Can Make A Difference

Ellen Galinsky | Posted 11.17.2011

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If very young children are drawn to others who are helpful, then what happens to them as they grow up? Why do some children and their friends become bullies?

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Pranks Gone Too Far in Shakespeare and South Hadley

Ken Adelman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The bullying and abuse the Bard portrays in the torment of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was done by nine teenagers in South Hadley, Mass. against high school freshman Phoebe Prince.

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They Called Her an Irish Slut: Phoebe Prince

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 11.17.2011

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More than 3,000 teens kill themselves each year; 250,000 attempt suicide. More teenagers and young adults die of suicide than from cancer, heart dise...

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Cyberbullying: Problem or Panic?

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.25.2011

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Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By Noah Nelson If you look at the moral p...

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Mobbing Mean Girls:

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 05.25.2011

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The problems of bullying are everywhere, in every school, town, and city in America. If nothing changes, the consequences and mayhem will continue to traumatize the entire nation, again and again.

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Bullying: Didn't You Know It's Just a Sport?

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Fox News, Zero-Tolerance-Policy, Phoebe Prince, Adult Bullying, Reality-Television, Bullying, Teen Suicide, Harol Koplewicz, School-Bullying, Parenting, Healthy Living News

We need to get serious about the urgent need to focus on adult bullying of other adults, something at times dramatic and at others so usual as to be staples of our living conditions.

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Calling Back Your Spirit: Taking the 21 Day Challenge to Stop the Bullying

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011

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We need to learn, model, and teach whatever practice restores the Spirit of who we are, nipping self-criticism in the bud. We need to call back our own Greater Self, on a daily basis.

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Phoebe Prince Cyberbullies Charged With Harassing Teen Who Killed Herself

Huffington Post/Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

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NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- Nine teens have been charged in the "unrelenting" bullying of a teenage girl from Ireland who killed herself after being raped a...

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