Posted on 04/24/2018 7:34:25 AM PDT by Gamecock
An Oregon school principal is being accused of “victim shaming” by some parents.
Some parents of children at Centennial Elementary School in Scio say recent remarks by the principal on bullying are offensive.
In a YouTube video, Luke Zedwick stated victims of bullying tend to provoke bullies and must be taught to be “less annoying.”
Zedwick has a YouTube channel full of parenting advice. On April 10, he acknowledged that what he was about to say was controversial, and then in a six-minute video he made statements including, “In my experience the kids who get bullied are not really good friends. They're not good at being a friend. They tend to annoy people, maybe without knowing it, but usually they do know it."
He then stated how parents should handle children who are being bullied.
“So if you find your kid being a target, one thing you could do to help them, separate from the bullying, is you can help them learn not to be annoying,” Zedwick said.
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And this is exactly why I didn’t take my problems to someone in authority.
FWIW, I was the kid who was left out, always called on last, endured insults, and ignored. In the sixth grade I realized there was a “club”, and I wasn’t in it. Only club members could do things. From that point on, I dropped out of school culture as much as possible. Then, on March 26, 1971 (11th grade) Christ became personal to me. Even so, when I graduated high school, as we were leaving the ceremony during the processional, I promised myself that I would never voluntarily be around that class ever again.
To this day, I am friends with certain individuals, but will never attend any reunions or gatherings of those people.
The principal is a bully, they protect their own.
I was bullied in school...badly. My crime...I was quiet and shy.
I was too. I couldn’t stand being around most kids and they picked up on it.
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