aidan wrote:Nihm- I was talking about this with my students. And though they stated their belief that the girl who killed herself may have been annoying - she may even have been a bully herself, but for the adult woman to involve herself and start playing the same game that these kids play is pretty sad.... They said, 'She must not have much of a life if she has time to do stuff like this.'
Oh yeah, no sure.. I didnt mean at all as extenuating. The whole thing disgusted me. The mother of course is the most heinous. For an adult to do that. To deliberately and over such a long time play a cruel game with a psychologically disturbed teenage girl.. the mind boggles.
Every class has an 'ugly duckling' or two who are targeted for mocking and bullying by their classmates; parents and teachers should protect them. This parent on the other hand upped the ante and set up this cruel hoax that ended up driving the bullied girl over the edge and suiciding. What kind of person does that?
But the fact that all this girl, her daughter, who had played her role, took from the whole thing was that the girl who committed suicide was really just herself to blame anyhow and now
they were being unfairly portrayed, whine... not a hint of any kind of sense of responsibility or guilt, just entitlement and self-pity and - yeah, no wonder with such a mother but the whole family obviously just... yeah, no words, really. Just unbelievable.