Nancy Gibbs

摘要

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safetyrnand power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge. That's one of many reasons the awful story of Phoebe Prince leaves me so uneasy.rnThe tragedy is now a global parable: a cute Irish girl moves to a new town-South Hadley, Mass.-and starts dating a popular football player. Other girls, alpha girls, get jealous. They taunt her, cross out her picture on a student-body poster, fling abuse on Facebook. It goes on for months: her mother tries to get the school to do something.