Somebody once said that life is high school happening over and over again. It's the boys against the girls, jocks versus the freaks, the cool kids and the nerds. High school is a highly stratified society. The caste system is carved in stone, and there's so much pressure to conform to whichever group one feels the need to belong.

It ain't easy getting through four years of high school without some kind of damage from bullying, mean girls, hazing or any of the other myriad ways kids find to make one another miserable.

Television shows such as "Glee," "Friday Night Lights" and "Freaks and Geeks" have gone a long way toward illustrating the dramatic ups and downs of American high school life. Both middle school and high school can be tough waters to navigate. And social media hasn't made it any easier. In fact, Facebook and Twitter have provided new avenues for inventive forms of social torture.

Case in point:

The students at Bay High School were recently made aware of an anonymous Twitter page dedicated to insulting members of the senior class with hateful, hurtful remarks about students' appearance, intelligence, sexual orientation, race, mental health -- just about anything that could hurt a person's feelings was included in this ugly and nasty diatribe.

The page caught on with the student body, as these salacious things do, and the poisonous tone cast a sickening pall over students who should have been celebrating a very joyous accomplishment.

Then Bay High senior James Roubal came up with an idea. He started another Twitter page called BayHighROCKS. He made the password public and invited all the students of Bay High, not just the seniors, to post comments about the wonderful qualities of their friends and classmates.

You can see the page on Twitter. It turned into a love fest with kids talking glowingly about one another. They describe their friends' loyalty, warmth and supportive natures. They talk about boys and girls who light up a room with their kindness and good cheer. They praise each others' sense of humor and ability to make the best of trying situations.

So what began as something nasty and hurtful was turned into an opportunity for the kids to heal their own wounds and to show appreciation for the love and friendship they all share. It was a wonderful, tangible example of love triumphing over hate.

It's like the ending of a Jimmy Stewart movie. The only thing this story lacks is a musical dance number in front of water fountains.

If life really is high school happening over and over again, then, thanks to James Roubal, the members of the Bay Class of 2013 are some very lucky kids.