teenaged girls suck

Teen is going through a bit of drama at school. She made a social mistake, and she's paying for it. There's a major Mean Girl mentality these days, more I think than when I was in school. I'm not blind - I'm fairly certain that the teen is sometimes a mean girl herself, and now she's on the receiving end. I'd love to be able to step in and somehow make things better for her, but I can't. And she's already fairly fragile - I hate seeing her ostracized like this. I know it will blow over, and probably pretty quickly, but it's still painful to watch her struggle through it. What I'd really like to do is bitch slap one of the girls and have a serious, honest talk with two others, but again, I can't. It's going to be a rough weekend here, I think.