Dr. Reid replacing school discipline with “restorative justice” ?

[Anonymous]

After a clean-sweep by a single party in the last school election, Dr. Reid is not going anywhere.

She probably believes she has a mandate now.

Do not expect any course-change on her “restorative-justice” / zero suspensions plan for FCPS.

And yes, violent fights on school grounds are becoming more commonplace in FCPS, as is vaping, truancy, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After a clean-sweep by a single party in the last school election, Dr. Reid is not going anywhere.

She probably believes she has a mandate now.

Do not expect any course-change on her “restorative-justice” / zero suspensions plan for FCPS.

And yes, violent fights on school grounds are becoming more commonplace in FCPS, as is vaping, truancy, etc.

Source?

[Anonymous]

Restorative Justice is a disaster wherever it has been tried. In the article below parents learn how to protect their children from the consequences of it. Overall, a good read for anyone, including school staff! Dr Reid and FCPS School Board would benefit from reading it also:

https://delmarvatimes.com/restorative-discipline-crippling-kids-mental-maturity-and-validating-violence/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes.

Completely insane.

Our poor teachers and administrators!

It is almost as if she wants to drive away good teachers and admins.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After a clean-sweep by a single party in the last school election, Dr. Reid is not going anywhere.

She probably believes she has a mandate now.

Do not expect any course-change on her “restorative-justice” / zero suspensions plan for FCPS.

And yes, violent fights on school grounds are becoming more commonplace in FCPS, as is vaping, truancy, etc.

Source?

Does anyone have actual statistics on discipline by school? I keep hearing these anecdotes about "no suspensions", but my observation is that it really varies by school - principals are given a lot of leeway in how to implement the SRR. Some still seem to hand out suspensions like candy, even for first complaint / non-violent infractions. I'd really like to see how consistent the discipline practices are across FCPS, but can't find any information more recent than studies from 2019. Seems like the number of suspensions per school would be an easy thing to publish each year to provide some transparency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After a clean-sweep by a single party in the last school election, Dr. Reid is not going anywhere.

She probably believes she has a mandate now.

Do not expect any course-change on her “restorative-justice” / zero suspensions plan for FCPS.

And yes, violent fights on school grounds are becoming more commonplace in FCPS, as is vaping, truancy, etc.

Source?

Does anyone have actual statistics on discipline by school? I keep hearing these anecdotes about "no suspensions", but my observation is that it really varies by school - principals are given a lot of leeway in how to implement the SRR. Some still seem to hand out suspensions like candy, even for first complaint / non-violent infractions. I'd really like to see how consistent the discipline practices are across FCPS, but can't find any information more recent than studies from 2019. Seems like the number of suspensions per school would be an easy thing to publish each year to provide some transparency.

look under learning climate

https://schoolquality.virginia.gov/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After a clean-sweep by a single party in the last school election, Dr. Reid is not going anywhere.

She probably believes she has a mandate now.

Do not expect any course-change on her “restorative-justice” / zero suspensions plan for FCPS.

And yes, violent fights on school grounds are becoming more commonplace in FCPS, as is vaping, truancy, etc.

Source?

Does anyone have actual statistics on discipline by school? I keep hearing these anecdotes about "no suspensions", but my observation is that it really varies by school - principals are given a lot of leeway in how to implement the SRR. Some still seem to hand out suspensions like candy, even for first complaint / non-violent infractions. I'd really like to see how consistent the discipline practices are across FCPS, but can't find any information more recent than studies from 2019. Seems like the number of suspensions per school would be an easy thing to publish each year to provide some transparency.

look under learning climate

https://schoolquality.virginia.gov/

NP and while this does provide number of suspensions (thanks PP!), it doesn't really tell you about proportionality of discipline or if there are, say, violent incidents where no suspensions are being handed out because they are being called something else.

Yeah, there's that table of behaviors of concern, but each administrator might be different. To take an example from a recent thread in the ES forum, one principal might call shoving someone who bullied you one kind of behavior and suspend the kid. Another principal might downplay it, give it a lesser category, and not suspend the same kid.

At our school when they switched to responsive classroom the discipline referrals went down. Was it because the behavior got better, or because teachers knew they'd get in trouble for referring? Based on the number of times my kid got pulled out of class because someone was throwing chairs, it sure seemed like the latter. I would have preferred more referrals and fewer thrown chairs.

[Anonymous]

High referrals looks bad on admin so many will not accept them or down play behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After a clean-sweep by a single party in the last school election, Dr. Reid is not going anywhere.

She probably believes she has a mandate now.

Do not expect any course-change on her “restorative-justice” / zero suspensions plan for FCPS.

And yes, violent fights on school grounds are becoming more commonplace in FCPS, as is vaping, truancy, etc.

Source?

Does anyone have actual statistics on discipline by school? I keep hearing these anecdotes about "no suspensions", but my observation is that it really varies by school - principals are given a lot of leeway in how to implement the SRR. Some still seem to hand out suspensions like candy, even for first complaint / non-violent infractions. I'd really like to see how consistent the discipline practices are across FCPS, but can't find any information more recent than studies from 2019. Seems like the number of suspensions per school would be an easy thing to publish each year to provide some transparency.

look under learning climate

https://schoolquality.virginia.gov/

NP and while this does provide number of suspensions (thanks PP!), it doesn't really tell you about proportionality of discipline or if there are, say, violent incidents where no suspensions are being handed out because they are being called something else.

Yeah, there's that table of behaviors of concern, but each administrator might be different. To take an example from a recent thread in the ES forum, one principal might call shoving someone who bullied you one kind of behavior and suspend the kid. Another principal might downplay it, give it a lesser category, and not suspend the same kid.

At our school when they switched to responsive classroom the discipline referrals went down. Was it because the behavior got better, or because teachers knew they'd get in trouble for referring? Based on the number of times my kid got pulled out of class because someone was throwing chairs, it sure seemed like the latter. I would have preferred more referrals and fewer thrown chairs.

Thanks for the link, that is helpful - but I'm still missing something? Under short-term suspensions and long-term suspensions, it shows for each student group the 'percent of population' and 'percent of suspensions' - no total numbers? So it's a way of looking at equity or bias, I guess, but we don't see year-to-year trends in the total number of suspensions? Or am I supposed to draw some link between the SOA Offenses data (which does have total numbers) and the severity of discipline for those offenses?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dr. Reid says she is implementing “restorative justice.”

This is a portion of Michelle Reid’s weekly update sent to FCPS parents:

"The second initiative is our Restorative Justice Program’s new Responsible Pathway to Restorative Justice Facilitation. This pathway program will enable trained and endorsed members of Team FCPS to operate as school-based restorative justice facilitators. By this time next year, our goal is to have two of these facilitators in each of our schools. I’m thrilled about this program and how it will support us to provide excellence, equity, and opportunity for each and every one of our students, especially those impacted by discipline disparities. [i] As I shared with the principals on Thursday, I know there likely are a lot of questions about these two initiatives! More information on our Instructional Rounds and the Responsible Pathway to Restorative Justice Facilitation will be made available in the coming weeks; stay tuned!"

Do you think this is a good idea? Will this new approach increase or decrease crime in your child’s school?

This isn’t in place across FCPS already? This has been at our MS/HS schools for at least a few years even pre-pandemic.

[Anonymous]

This entire thing ties back to the “school to prison pipeline”. I don’t know how much I believe a school can stop someone from heading to jail. I’m glad schools are done with suspending for dress code violations and lateness but the no suspension thing has got out of control.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This entire thing ties back to the “school to prison pipeline”. I don’t know how much I believe a school can stop someone from heading to jail. I’m glad schools are done with suspending for dress code violations and lateness but the no suspension thing has got out of control.

I mean I agree but I think this is much bigger than just FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After a clean-sweep by a single party in the last school election, Dr. Reid is not going anywhere.

She probably believes she has a mandate now.

Do not expect any course-change on her “restorative-justice” / zero suspensions plan for FCPS.

And yes, violent fights on school grounds are becoming more commonplace in FCPS, as is vaping, truancy, etc.

Source?

I’m not the PP, but the source would be eyes and ears of any breathing person who has a child on school. Duh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This entire thing ties back to the “school to prison pipeline”. I don’t know how much I believe a school can stop someone from heading to jail. I’m glad schools are done with suspending for dress code violations and lateness but the no suspension thing has got out of control.

There is no school to prison pipeline. There is a bad parenting to prison pipeline, and school discipline problems are just a symptom along the way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This entire thing ties back to the “school to prison pipeline”. I don’t know how much I believe a school can stop someone from heading to jail. I’m glad schools are done with suspending for dress code violations and lateness but the no suspension thing has got out of control.

I mean I agree but I think this is much bigger than just FCPS.

I agree. These problems that we are talking about are nationwide. Most of the problems that we are seeing in FCPS are happening in schools nationwide. FCPS is not some stand out horrible district nor are they amazing. All of the school districts are like this to some degree.