By Matthew Campbell
Story Published: Feb 22, 2010 at 6:29 PM EST
Story Updated: Feb 22, 2010 at 10:25 PM EST
“Principal Dan Smith has completed disciplinary proceedings with students involved in the harassment of Phoebe Prince at South Hadley High School. Initially, his investigation focused on a small group of girls who had been identified by other students as participants in acts of name calling and bullying. The group actually consisted of two different subgroups. The first subgroup was responsible for a pair of name-calling incidents that occurred approximately one week before Phoebe’s death. Those incidents were brought to the principal’s attention when they occurred. He took immediate disciplinary action with the students, which was effective in ending their participation in further acts of bullying.