Phoebe Prince's Bullies Apologize, Are Sentenced to 1 Year Probation, Community Service

Well, you don't know these kids. Quite a group they are. Hopefully the new principal at that school will clean it up of such behaviour.
This was not just school behaviour but happened outside of school. The lawyers didn't want trials as they know their punishment would be harsher, as it should be.

Not are all bullied the same amount. In middle school had my lunch and my stuff stolen and destroyed regularly, was in most cases didn't know who did it. I was beat up, and mocked and teased regularly but no one seemed to care to do anything about it. I was very close to killing my self a few times, to this day I suffer from horrible depression from the experience and still flirt with suicide.

Their punishment was fair? Please, all of them should be in jail for at least a year, if not several. 100 hours community service? Please. That's nothing. If they are going to stay out of jail I want to see them spend the entire summer doing community service Mon-Sat.

Bullying has gotten far worse over the years. Parents seem to have taught their kids that being a total and complete d*ckhole is ok.

Bully has gotten worst because people have gotten weaker or parents have failed to raise their children properly (victims and bullies alike). Like I said, the folly falls on the shoulders of the parents not the children.

Quit calling it "Bullying" It is criminal harrassement, stalking and in cases also physical assault. And the only reason this one was crying was because she got caught harrassing and stalking this poor girl to her death., It's time for jail for this entire crew because they have been bought up to believe that this can happen as they behave this way, that they can do this and nothing will happen to them for their crimes against society.

Typical rose-colored cruelty. Kids killed themselves ALL THE TIME from bullying, you simply didn't HEAR about it being caused by bulling; it was simply labelled a "tragedy" and blamed on mental illness; meanwhile those who refused to go to school, were labelled "truant" and sent to prison or mental hospitals to be bullied there even worse. Suicide was simply an ESCAPE from this type of medieval TORTURE.

Ever hear of laws against defamation, assault, battery, undue influence, intentional infliction of emotional abuse, false imprisonment? DIdn't think so. Because you're arrogant and cruel, and you are infested with the hatred of the incubator in which you were cultured... like any virulent social virus.

That is a pretty judgemental statement to make- she was a weakling? What would you have done?

Yea, you need to have some backbone and you need to be packing some heat. I don't have school-age kids any more, but if one of mine were being attacked to the extent she was, I would have sent them out the door with a concealed weapon, and a few lessons on how murder your abusers, and get away with it (like they did).

I certainly hope you don't have children, it's people like you whose raise the type of kids that do this!!! Shame on you, maybe one day, you will have to deal with a situation like this and you will personally feel the pain and anger!!

A weakling? This young lady came from Ireland expecgting a better life.Instead she was torn apart by a bunch of animals,one of them she trusted to help her adjust. You are adding insult to this family's injury.

Bullying is the inevitable result of ANYONE being above the law. But this is what schools do: i.e. it strips victims of their normal legal rights and protections, by allowing bullies to get away with things that they would not elsewhere.
If someone shoves you on the street, it's an assault, and you can call police; and if someone calls you names or publicly says false or private things about you, there are also disorderly conduct, defamation and privacy-laws. But in the school, these laws don't exist-- nor is the protection by the child's family, neighborhood or home-environment etc; and on top of that, the child is forced to attend under penalty of law, essentially kidnapped by the state to a hostile environment where normal laws and protections simply don't exist.
And it wonders why bullying occurs....could it be because all the laws, developed over hundreds of years for people's protection, are suddenly crushed flat?
People are too close to the situation in order to see the forest for the trees, and they think their own problems too significant to care about those of children-- just like free people didn't care about slavery; i.e. they take their own rights for granted, and will simply trivialize whatever happens to "kids" as "kidstuff."
But the time to end it is NOW. Nobody, but NOBODY, is above the law.