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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with restorative justice is that not punishing offenders greatly affects the "wobbler kids". 
There are always going to be a few kids who are high maintenance and tough to teach in a school because they act out. The issue is when one of those students cuss out a teacher, hit another student, throw things and then they are sent to "talk about it" and sent right back to class or the teacher realizes nothing happens so doesn't bother to send the kid to the office, there are a bunch of wobbler kids who ordinarily would behave because they are wary of getting a consequence who then start acting out. Now instead of one kid in a class who is challenging you have 5-6. It make the  learning environment awful for the other 20 -25 students and the teacher.

Think if you were caught running a red light or speeding all you had to do was watch a video on the consequence of speeding or talk about speeding. Well, that is not going to convince me to stop running red lights or speeding. What stops me from running red lights or going 85 miles an hour on an uncrowded freeway is that I might get a ticket and my insurance rates will go up. If I were to see no one is ever getting caught and the police announce no more tickets then I wouldn't bother to follow all the traffic laws.[/quote]

"70 percent of staff reported that RJ improved overall school climate during the first year of implementation."[/quote]

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