Bloomfield, the parents of a 14-year-old girl sued theschool after a teacher went to jail for statutory rape for sleeping with their freshman daughter.
Shirky mentioned the case ofthe 9-year-old Scottish girl whose blog describing the lunches being served at her school drew wide attention, prompting a decision by local authorities to order her to stop.
The movie Mean Girls just turned eight years old, but the lessons it teaches on the politics ofgirl world and navigating the high school experience are timeless.
It was against this troubled background that on May 19th a bomb was detonated outside a school in the southern city of Brindisi, killing a 16-year-old girl and seriously injuring others.