Thursday, April 1, 2010

Suicides open eyes to bullying after 13-year-old Joshua boy's death

A 13-year-old hangs himself in a Johnson County barn. An 8-year-old jumps out of a two-story school building in Houston. Nine Massachusetts teenagers face jail time after allegedly harassing a girl so mercilessly that she killed herself. These incidents, all of which took place in the past week, reframe the age-old phenomenon of the schoolyard bully. Jessica Meyers writes about the grim effects of modern bullying.

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