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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, people, as a whole, lie *all* the time. Kids are not the exception. My kids, your kids, loud kids, quiet kids...all kids lie at some point or another. So if you are faced with 100 kids every day, the odds that at least one of them lies to you during that day is pretty good. Imagine being around 1000 teenagers, just any teenagers who happen to live in the vicinity of the building, and seeing one of them with the same snack that was intended for the adults. Is it so bizarre to make the assumption that one of the teenagers stole the snack?

Now I would *never* yell at a kid for eating a suspicious snack or going to the wrong bathroom. I wouldn't even say anything. When teachers get snacks during teacher appreciation week, I bring the kids some candy because I have a bleeding heart and think it's sad for them to see others enjoying treats and not getting any. But asking teachers to constantly give students the benefit of the doubt when they are faced with the issues they are faced with is maybe asking a bit too much. [b]I do feel bad for your kid, but teach him that it's not personal and sometimes people have their own issues they're dealing with.[/b] [/quote]

That's not the lesson I'd teach my kid. The lesson I'd teach them is that even adults can be wrong and I would hope that the adults in question would be mature and vulnerable enough to admit they are wrong and apologize to a kid they falsely accused of doing something they didn't do.

That would be a truly "restorative practice," which is what MCPS touts it does.[/quote]

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