From Friend to Enemy

The 2010 suicide in small-town Massachusetts garnered worldwide attention. Barely fifteen years old Irish, transfer student Phoebe Prince hung herself on a gray, cold, January afternoon after enduring vicious bullying in school and online for months. Her bullying was no secret; hundreds of other students knew, as did several school counselors, nurse, a dozen or more teachers, and administration officials. Yet all took few or no steps to prevent the relentless persecution the drove...
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The 2010 suicide in small-town Massachusetts garnered worldwide attention. Barely fifteen years old Irish, transfer student Phoebe Prince hung herself on a gray, cold, January afternoon after enduring vicious bullying in school and online for months. Her bullying was no secret; hundreds of other students knew, as did several school counselors, nurse, a dozen or more teachers, and administration officials. Yet all took few or no steps to prevent the relentless persecution the drove Phoebe to her death. The is Phoebe's story. The real story. A true account of how a skewed small-town culture allowed a decades-long school bullying culture breeding the kind of children who would bully a young girl to death and gloat about their work after. A few years earlier, a departing teacher angrily told the principal, "Someone is going to die in your school" Phoebe was that "someone." From Friend to Enemy is her tragic story.