Restorative justice is a concept I can get behind. In theory. How it is practiced is key. It doesn't seem as if the District is utilizing components of it effectively. The District also likes to have numbers that show it is doing a wonderful job. Then why are parents all over the city angry? I recall one incident where my one son was in …
Restorative justice is a concept I can get behind. In theory. How it is practiced is key. It doesn't seem as if the District is utilizing components of it effectively. The District also likes to have numbers that show it is doing a wonderful job. Then why are parents all over the city angry? I recall one incident where my one son was in a fight where he was not the aggressor. A “peace circle” was convened where he had to sit in a small room with the aggressor and his mom and a social worker and tell this giant kid how he felt. The other student’s mom did not give a RA about the whole process and wasn’t even angry or apologetic. We left soon after. I should have pressed charges. Maybe that wouldn’t have helped my son but I would have felt better since there was clearly no remorse from the perpetrator or his parent. I bet that is a lot of the same which occurs at D65 today. There is an election going on and voting has started. I encourage anyone who thinks the current situation needs change to give someone else a chance to right the wrongs. Vote for Omar, John, and Ndona.
This is basically what I was trying to say - good idea but the implementation requires a lot of attention to details. The current administration are not details people. So instead we get some kind of half-ass restorative justice that is closer to anarchy and causing the teachers to all feel screwed (and leave).
Restorative justice is a concept I can get behind. In theory. How it is practiced is key. It doesn't seem as if the District is utilizing components of it effectively. The District also likes to have numbers that show it is doing a wonderful job. Then why are parents all over the city angry? I recall one incident where my one son was in a fight where he was not the aggressor. A “peace circle” was convened where he had to sit in a small room with the aggressor and his mom and a social worker and tell this giant kid how he felt. The other student’s mom did not give a RA about the whole process and wasn’t even angry or apologetic. We left soon after. I should have pressed charges. Maybe that wouldn’t have helped my son but I would have felt better since there was clearly no remorse from the perpetrator or his parent. I bet that is a lot of the same which occurs at D65 today. There is an election going on and voting has started. I encourage anyone who thinks the current situation needs change to give someone else a chance to right the wrongs. Vote for Omar, John, and Ndona.
This is basically what I was trying to say - good idea but the implementation requires a lot of attention to details. The current administration are not details people. So instead we get some kind of half-ass restorative justice that is closer to anarchy and causing the teachers to all feel screwed (and leave).