Cyberbullying

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I have a lot of younger cousins who are in middle and high school.

One of them was recently removed from her high school cheer team due to being the perpetrator of online bullying.

She is a senior who was dating a senior football player. She was also really good friends with New Sophomore Cheerleader (just made the team in May of last school year).

Over the summer, Cousin and Football Player broke up. He starts spending time with New Sophomore. They decide to start dating.

Cousin of course freaks out and stops being friends with New Soph. Then school starts and they have to be aroud each other every day for cheer.

Cousin tells all the other Seniors what happened and they pretty much proceed to make cheer a living hell for her. Not in the "we're gonna punch you in the face" way. But in the "girl world" way. No one talks to her, offers to help her with cheer stuff, they don't sit by her at lunch.

New Soph tells the cheer coach, who reprimands Cousin. She also tells my aunt (Cousin's mom) and Cousin is grounded. That's when all the cyber harrassment starts.

Cousin wrote a forever long Tumblr blog about how New Soph is a skank, fat whore, etc. and sent it to her friends and they sent it to New Soph on FB.

Then they all post parts of the letter as their FB status like "Cheerleader is pretty sure that this one cheerleader is the biggest skank EVER. Ew." Not specifically calling her out but this girl knew exactly who they were talking about.

The Sophomore ended up nominated for Homecoming Court. Cousin and friends wrote mean stuff on her posters at school.

It got to be too much, she showed the FB stuff, the blog, everything to her mom, who showed the principal. The school has a zero tolerance policy on this stuff.

She got 3 days of in-school suspension, and since cheerleaders have to have a clean discipline record, she got removed from the cheer team.

This is all pretty crazy and I seriously didn't know all of this was going on because she tries to act all sweet and nice in front of me and her parents.

As appalling as this all is, I DO applaud my Aunt and Uncle for not fighting it. She cried and was all like "OMG but she is mean to me too!!! I didn't even DO anything." but they were pretty much like "too bad, you weren't crying when you were writing all this stuff.

Claps for your aunt and uncle. It's always heartening to see parents who have their stuff together.