The principal called it right.

Angela was an impressionable girl in a highly distorted affluent social environment.

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The thing I hate is that when you have child murderers people instantly look at their home life and while that's understandable a lot of these child murderers have decent or nice lives. They THEMSELVES are just messed up. It's like when a woman intentionally kills her child, people just can't fathom the idea. Society needs to stop putting children and women on some kind of moral pedestal where the idea of them doing anything evil is just unfathomable but when men commit crimes it's "oh typical emotionless male". Evil knows no age, sex, or color do like you said he was right wholeheartedly. Some people even kids are just outright evil

I recently re-watched this on YouTube. The movie definitely went out of its way to make the viewer sympathize with Angela and almost blame Stacey for her own death. I think there can be no other explanation than Angela had some kind of mental problem - even if bullying and social pressure were supposedly to blame, I don't see how Angela was dealing with too much of either issue. She wasn't really bullied - sure she felt like she didn't always fit in, and Stacey made snide comments to her at times, but she had friends and got to go along with some of the popular kids' outings and otherwise got off pretty easy, especially compared to the "goth" girl who had no friends and was constantly harassed, and who notably *didn't* kill anyone. Lots of kids don't make squads they try out for, get embarrassed socially, feel pressure to do better and be the best. But they don't go and kill someone over it unless there is a deeper issue.

Yeah - we do need to get back to blaming the perp and nothing else. I mean that needs to be first. Then in a secondary way we can also look at things that could use improvement, etc.