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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The principal at our highly regarded middle school blamed our daughter for similar bullying happening to her. I tried to speak out and you all blame me. [/quote]

If this is the kid at my kid's down county middle school a few years ago, she antagonized kids repeatedly and was more bully than bullied. That was not similar.

I am sorry,  school admin has responded poorly, OP.  I hope the bullying report and/or police can help.

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DP.  I just want to be clear, when the PPP says "blamed our daughter for similar bullying happening to her" -- I am reading that PPP as saying that that PPP's daughter also received threats of rape and violence.  Those kinds of threats are never OK under any circumstances.  Girls are often blamed for "provoking" or "attracting" sexual threats, which is what you seem to be suggesting when you say that you, immediate PP, think that you know who the PPP's child is and that that child "antagonized kids repeatedly and was more bully than bullied".

I say this, because it was our, DP, experience that girls in our MS, were blamed by MCPS administrators for provoking sexual assault.  I literally heard an MCPS staffer correct a parent who complained at a public meeting about sexual harassment of girls!  The MCPS administrator said in a very patronizing tone, "you parents don't understand, these girls actually want this kind of attention".

FWIW, historically, women have often been blamed for sexual assault or even prosecuted for it. So, this kind of thinking is entrenched in society.

Actual or threatened sexual harassment or assaults are never acceptable.  [/quote]

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