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[quote=Anonymous]I believe that things like restorative justice and giving kids a second chance can have some usefulness but they need to be followed through on and have the full wrap-around programming needed for kids to succeed.  And that's where we fail, over and over, and over again, by not having any followthrough, and not having the programming.

These kids will STILL end up going out into the world barely literate, lacking any proper coaching, interventions, mentoring, life skills, without a summer reading camp or anything else to help them succeed, nor summer job to keep them from being idle and surrounded by bad influences, and without any mandates or consequences for skipping out on the insufficient, minimal things that currently exist.

So yes, it is no surprise that it ends up being a permissive environment with minimal positive reinforcement, minimal consequences, leading to ever escalating levels of misbehavior.

The problem is half-baked half-measures.  If they aren't actually going to take the rest of the steps to reform and rehabilitate these kids then it's all a waste.[/quote]

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