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From the NYT article I read on this, the parents *did* contact the administration about it, at least twice.

No surprise that it was the girls who did the vast majority of the bullying. Women have always been the most efficient, brutal bullies (as Thackeray so amusingly observes in Vanity Fair, and that was in the late 1800s). To paraphrase what I heard or read somewhere, only a woman can insult you with a major burn while politely complimenting you.

As for my own historical perspective, I was bullied a ton in middle school and it shattered my self-confidence all throughout high school, and even to some degree now, as I still don't make friends easily at all and constantly feel like I'm not good enough. I wasn't bullied too much in high school, because, for reasons still unknown to me this day, a large number of the gangbangers protected me, although I didn't find out just how much until years after I graduated.