A 15 year old girl hanged herself in South Hadley, Massachusetts because she was bullied a lot at school. Phoebe was a very private person and she did not tell anybody her problems before she commited suicide. People are blaming the school for her death because they did not do enough to punish the kids that were bullying her. The school said that they took appropriate action against the students and that those that were guilty of bullying Phoebe were expelled. The school also says that this is a terrible punishment because it changes the students’ whole lives and they have to figure out a new way to finish their education.
I do not believe that it was the school’s fault that Phoebe committed suicide. At every school there is bullying and it is not right but the school expelled the students responsible and that is about all the school could do. Phoebe did not talk to anyone which the school cannot be blamed for. Maybe the parents should have better communicated with their daughter and this could have been prevented. There are many factors that cause someone to hang themselves and it isn’t just because they were bullied at school. Some parents say that they don’t want their child’s life runned by the school but when their child ends their own life then it is the school’s fault for not being involved enough. It can’t work both ways and it wasn’t just the school that was responsible for Phoebe’s death.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/01/massachusetts.bullying.suicide/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
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