This is something that really is out of my understanding. How was this possible to happen? I'm sad and enraged at the same time.
A new start, a new country, a new school, new people, a new mentality.... These changes are quite challenging, and an adult person would need easily no less than a year to fully adapt to their new environment. During this time, the individual is prone to fragility, until they find his/her marks.
Phoebe and her family arrived recently to America from her native Ireland. She had no friends. She was new in a school and she was beautiful. And she went to a public school where it was supposed, she would be ok. Yes, she would need some time for adapting but well, it was normal, isn't it?
Competition at teenage life is high. Who is the beautiest? Who is the most charming girl? Who has the nicest body? Who is the most popular? Phoebe was possibly "the girl" at the schoold and this was unforgivable for some of the other girls. Jealousy is a human feeling... who has not experienced yet? But, how do we humans deal with it? Phoebe was not guilty for being beautiful. She was not guilty for being nice and charming. But she paid for that with her life. She was raped twice in a day. She was segregated. She was humiliated every day, in every sense. Her mother asked for help, and her plead was ignorated. She had to endure all these horrors everyday. She was H A R A S S E D and I do not understand why the school authorities did NOTHING to help her. Her mother asked for help TWICE. Why her plead was left unattended?
Is this a matter of incompetence of public schools? Nobody though that Phoebe was to commit suicide. Is this a matter of human respect? Certainly. Everybody deserves respect for being who they are. Being different is not a matter of segregation but of respect. But the most shocking thing, is how the other teenagers arrived to do what they did. What did they learn at their homes? What is the example their parents gave them? How they arrived to rape a girl, to humiliate her just because a member of their band hated her because of what she representated? They didn't even got to know her.
I pray for Phoebe's family, and I really wish, with all my heart, that they find peace and acceptation to these awful facts. And I wish also, with all my heart, that the guilty people get the punishment they deserve.
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This is something that really is out of my understanding. How was this possible to happen? I'm sad and enraged at the same time.
A new start, a new country, a new school, new people, a new mentality.... These changes are quite challenging, and an adult person would need easily no less than a year to fully adapt to their new environment. During this time, the individual is prone to fragility, until they find his/her marks.
Phoebe and her family arrived recently to America from her native Ireland. She had no friends. She was new in a school and she was beautiful. And she went to a public school where it was supposed, she would be ok. Yes, she would need some time for adapting but well, it was normal, isn't it?
Competition at teenage life is high. Who is the beautiest? Who is the most charming girl? Who has the nicest body? Who is the most popular? Phoebe was possibly "the girl" at the schoold and this was unforgivable for some of the other girls. Jealousy is a human feeling... who has not experienced yet? But, how do we humans deal with it? Phoebe was not guilty for being beautiful. She was not guilty for being nice and charming. But she paid for that with her life. She was raped twice in a day. She was segregated. She was humiliated every day, in every sense. Her mother asked for help, and her plead was ignorated. She had to endure all these horrors everyday. She was H A R A S S E D and I do not understand why the school authorities did NOTHING to help her. Her mother asked for help TWICE. Why her plead was left unattended?
Is this a matter of incompetence of public schools? Nobody though that Phoebe was to commit suicide. Is this a matter of human respect? Certainly. Everybody deserves respect for being who they are. Being different is not a matter of segregation but of respect. But the most shocking thing, is how the other teenagers arrived to do what they did. What did they learn at their homes? What is the example their parents gave them? How they arrived to rape a girl, to humiliate her just because a member of their band hated her because of what she representated? They didn't even got to know her.
I pray for Phoebe's family, and I really wish, with all my heart, that they find peace and acceptation to these awful facts. And I wish also, with all my heart, that the guilty people get the punishment they deserve.
April 4, 2010 - 10:51amThis Comment
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