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"facebook dialogPinterest\n\nLike any new freshman, Katie knew that the seniors in high school could be intimidating, but she had no idea just how bad they could be. \"Two weeks after starting school, I decided to crash an older girl's party and maybe make some new friends,\" recalls the fourteen-year-old Maryland native. But before she even stepped foot in the door, Clara, a senior, made it clear to Katie--and all of the first-year students--that her kind wasn't allowed: She slapped Katie in the face and shoved her into some nearby bushes, much to the amusement of the upperclassmen and horror of Katie's friends. \"Clara is the queen bee,\" says Elisa,* a sophomore at their school. \"Everyone knows she's the meanest person in school, and no one really likes her. But we're all so scared of her that we try to be her friend.\"\n\nBullying is nothing new and certainly not rare--nearly 30 percent of teens are bullied or admit to being bullies, according to the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center. As fourteen-year-old Boston native Natalie puts it, \"High school is Darwinian. When it comes to girls bullying or being catty and competitive, it's survival of the fittest.\" But when does it go too far? \"This girl in my class had sex with someone for the first time last year,\" recalls Stella, sixteen, from New Jersey. \"Well, the next day she told her best friend, and that was it. It got out to the entire school. Everywhere she went people were yelling and screaming and calling her a slut and a whore. She had to transfer schools.\" When Seema* from Toronto, Canada, was in the eighth grade, her classmates ganged up on her and teased her for months. Depressed, she switched schools, only to find that it happened again. \"When I got to my new school, I was part of the popular group for a while, but then they all turned on me.\" she recalls. \"They made fun of me for having short, dark hair and called me a boy--just because my hair isn't blonde and long.\"\n\n--EVA CHEN and CHARLOTTE RUDGE"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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