Bullying

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Not only do young teens suffer from these events, adults do as well. South Korean actress Choi Jin-sil, who committed suicide due to cyber-bullying and domestic violence in 2008, which led to her brothers suicide (he also suffered from major depression after his sister’s death) earlier this week. It’s a shame I think to society that these events are happening.

And in this case of Phoebe Prince, I believe this could have been prevented if someone would have talked to her. Especially the staff at the school who saw her crying in the hallway, or witnessed the bullying, or those failed to punish the students who were breaking the rules to bully Prince.

Prince was a foreigner, who was sexually assaulted (I am assuming after she moved from Ireland to Massachusetts). I would like to think that there was someone at the school who was helping her transition, and would have helped her deal with the trauma from her assault case.

This is a very fragile topic to approach and it is controversial. As people in the educational environment, what are your thoughts on this? What do you think should be done to prevent future events likes this from happening? How would you help others?

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