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You sounded reasonable and sane until your last statement.   The girl who sent the screenshots would not be "bullying" the victim.  She would "tattling" on her fellow gossips.  [/quote]

Yeah, let's not go giving the screen shot taker too much credit.  [b]If she had really been concerned about the meanness of the conversation among her friends she would have taken a screen shot and showed it to her parents, a teacher, a counselor, or some other trusted adult. [/b] [i]Instead, she sent it to a classmate of the current victim; there's really no logic to that beyond wanting to stir up more trouble.  [/i]And haven't we all known someone like that...you know, the type who says things like, "I would never say this, of course, but you know I've heard some other people saying x, y, and z awful thing about you [or a friend or whomever]. Of course I wouldn't do it, but I just thought you should know...."  [/quote]

This.  In fact, her actions may be [i]worse[/i] than the actions of the gossipy mean girls.

Begging the question of what the school in question should have already done or be doing, the school needs to move quickly and firmly to bring in someone to tackle the relational aggression between the girls.  The new school year needs to start with an action plan in place and then they need to follow through with it.  This is not a problem that will go away, even if one or two of the 'mean girls' leaves and even if the 'victim' does not matriculate to the school.  At this point it sounds as though the behavior has institutionalized.  It will be no small task to

[b]Those schools accepting the one or two 'mean girls' who are rumored to be leaving need to be ready to act to forestall and ameliorate any problems that can be easily anticipated even from this great distance.[/b][/quote]

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