Best-selling author takes on bullying
David Gunter Feature Correspondent | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 2 months AGO
<p>Jacque Johnson, principal at Farmin Stidwell Elementary School, and the school’s PTA will host Trudy Ludwig, a nationally renown presenter on the subject of bullying, as part of a districtwide program that will involve more than 1,600 area students in grades 2-7. The presentations also will include separate sessions geared toward teachers and parents. (Photo by DAVID GUNTER)</p>
SANDPOINT — Bullying comes in many shapes and sizes. Best-selling children’s author Trudy Ludwig has written about all of them.
On Oct. 7-10, she will address more than 1,600 Lake Pend Oreille School District students in grades 2-7, as part of a series of presentations slated over that four-day period.
Once considered a schoolyard rite of passage, bullying now is seen as a social aberration that harms perpetrator and victim alike. The traditional “punch them in the nose and they’ll leave you alone” solution also has been updated to include what Ludwig holds out as a tool belt of strategies that can defuse tense situations.
“I’ve seen her presentations and she does an amazing job with kids, teachers and parents,” said Farmin Stidwell Elementary School principal Jacque Johnson, whose school was instrumental in bringing the author to town to work with that very audience.
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