Does your school have fewer massively disregulated students?

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Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine how those kids behave at home? There are no consequences at home or school so they run wild.

Our school uses RJ, which works miracles with these kids. It's too bad they don't train everyone better in its practice.

Restorative Justice does not work at the middle and high school level, for bullying (no one wants to be in a healing circle with their bully!), or behaviors that MCPS wants to keep out of the criminal justice system. Think the armed carjacking that BCC had before Christmas. Can you give examples of how it works in elementary?

My last school was huge on restorative practices. The preventative side was great with community circles and building a community in your classroom. However, it did nothing to curb kids physically fighting, eloping, cursing out teachers, hitting staff, etc. I taught third grade at this school and it was exhausting. RJ isn't the cure-all that people try and make it out to be in MCPS.

Oh well that's not so bad.

The first time I saw "eloping" in the context of school, on DCUM, I thought it was an autocorrect error.

Eloping is really bad because the kid is out in the community without adult supervision and could be injured or abducted. The school is still responsible so the police have to be called and a lot of staff end up with walkies searching the neighborhood. The parent has to be notified. Some kids do this on a regular basis.

The police officers in MoCo who terrorized a 6 year old were called because he eloped.

Yes, running off from school is bad. Calling it "eloping' is funny.

Eloping means running off, so...

For people who aren't in education, eloping means running off with a romantic partner to get married.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine how those kids behave at home? There are no consequences at home or school so they run wild.

Our school uses RJ, which works miracles with these kids. It's too bad they don't train everyone better in its practice.

Restorative Justice does not work at the middle and high school level, for bullying (no one wants to be in a healing circle with their bully!), or behaviors that MCPS wants to keep out of the criminal justice system. Think the armed carjacking that BCC had before Christmas. Can you give examples of how it works in elementary?

My last school was huge on restorative practices. The preventative side was great with community circles and building a community in your classroom. However, it did nothing to curb kids physically fighting, eloping, cursing out teachers, hitting staff, etc. I taught third grade at this school and it was exhausting. RJ isn't the cure-all that people try and make it out to be in MCPS.

Oh well that's not so bad.

The first time I saw "eloping" in the context of school, on DCUM, I thought it was an autocorrect error.

Eloping is really bad because the kid is out in the community without adult supervision and could be injured or abducted. The school is still responsible so the police have to be called and a lot of staff end up with walkies searching the neighborhood. The parent has to be notified. Some kids do this on a regular basis.

The police officers in MoCo who terrorized a 6 year old were called because he eloped.

Yes, running off from school is bad. Calling it "eloping' is funny.

Eloping means running off, so...

For people who aren't in education, eloping means running off with a romantic partner to get married.

Exactly! And, at our ES there was an issue this year with kids pretending to get married at recess, so my initial thought was maybe OP was talking about our school.

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Am I missing something here? You’re a para, your job is literally to deal with children who need extra help with emotions, etc.

It’s like a firefighter asking why every house they go to is on fire.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine how those kids behave at home? There are no consequences at home or school so they run wild.

Our school uses RJ, which works miracles with these kids. It's too bad they don't train everyone better in its practice.

Does it work miracles with the well-behaved children whose learning experience these brats continually disrupt?

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Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine how those kids behave at home? There are no consequences at home or school so they run wild.

According to their parents, they are fine. Lol. I bet they are when you hand them a phone/tablet and let them have it whenever they want.

MCPS should have parents of misbehaving students attend classes with the kids for a week if they behave so much better for the parents.

I read an article about how a father of a teen boy sat in his class for a week because the boy kept misbehaving. The boy was super embarrassed, and stopped misbehaving.

Way to go, dad! We need more parents, especially dads, to get involved.

I don't want a random adult male in my son's class.

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Anonymous wrote:Am I missing something here? You’re a para, your job is literally to deal with children who need extra help with emotions, etc.

It’s like a firefighter asking why every house they go to is on fire.

It’s more like a firefighter asking why they get four five-alarm calls per day, every day.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine how those kids behave at home? There are no consequences at home or school so they run wild.

Our school uses RJ, which works miracles with these kids. It's too bad they don't train everyone better in its practice.

Does it work miracles with the well-behaved children whose learning experience these brats continually disrupt?

Yes, because it eliminates the problem when used correctly.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine how those kids behave at home? There are no consequences at home or school so they run wild.

According to their parents, they are fine. Lol. I bet they are when you hand them a phone/tablet and let them have it whenever they want.

MCPS should have parents of misbehaving students attend classes with the kids for a week if they behave so much better for the parents.

I read an article about how a father of a teen boy sat in his class for a week because the boy kept misbehaving. The boy was super embarrassed, and stopped misbehaving.

Way to go, dad! We need more parents, especially dads, to get involved.

I don't want a random adult male in my son's class.

But I love these folksy, commonsense anecdotes.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine how those kids behave at home? There are no consequences at home or school so they run wild.

Our school uses RJ, which works miracles with these kids. It's too bad they don't train everyone better in its practice.

If RJ works, and that’s a big IF, it stops working at about third grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine how those kids behave at home? There are no consequences at home or school so they run wild.

Our school uses RJ, which works miracles with these kids. It's too bad they don't train everyone better in its practice.

Does it work miracles with the well-behaved children whose learning experience these brats continually disrupt?

Yes, because it eliminates the problem when used correctly.

Only in the land of make believe.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine how those kids behave at home? There are no consequences at home or school so they run wild.

Our school uses RJ, which works miracles with these kids. It's too bad they don't train everyone better in its practice.

If RJ works, and that’s a big IF, it stops working at about third grade.

That's not true but I guess it won't work if people never give it a real chance.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine how those kids behave at home? There are no consequences at home or school so they run wild.

According to their parents, they are fine. Lol. I bet they are when you hand them a phone/tablet and let them have it whenever they want.

MCPS should have parents of misbehaving students attend classes with the kids for a week if they behave so much better for the parents.

I read an article about how a father of a teen boy sat in his class for a week because the boy kept misbehaving. The boy was super embarrassed, and stopped misbehaving.

Way to go, dad! We need more parents, especially dads, to get involved.

How many employers will allow a week’s personal leave to accommodate a parent doing this? DCUM just claimed that people couldn’t leave their jobs early for an emergency half day on Tuesday. Two days later, DCUM thinks parents can be at a school all day for five days in a row.

The former is last minute. The latter is planned. Huge difference.

You’re delusional if you think an ahole employer would give a week off because a teen is misbehaving if they wouldn’t give 2.5 hours off so a five year old is stranded at a bus stop.

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RJ works. They wouldn't pay me $175,000 if it didn't work.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine how those kids behave at home? There are no consequences at home or school so they run wild.

According to their parents, they are fine. Lol. I bet they are when you hand them a phone/tablet and let them have it whenever they want.

MCPS should have parents of misbehaving students attend classes with the kids for a week if they behave so much better for the parents.

I read an article about how a father of a teen boy sat in his class for a week because the boy kept misbehaving. The boy was super embarrassed, and stopped misbehaving.

Way to go, dad! We need more parents, especially dads, to get involved.

I don't want a random adult male in my son's class.

That’s a fellow parent with a child in your child’s class. How are they random?

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Anonymous wrote:Am I missing something here? You’re a para, your job is literally to deal with children who need extra help with emotions, etc.

It’s like a firefighter asking why every house they go to is on fire.

Well, it means the students in my school are missing out on all the opportunities for small group work, enrichment, and academic interventions that paras usually do. We’re not just hired to calm tantrums.