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[quote=Anonymous]It sounds to me like the targeted students felt like the restorative circles put an undue burden on them to teach the perpetrators how to be a good person. Maybe they would have felt less put-upon if the consequences had more teeth. The "education" provided to prevent this behavior is sorely lacking. You have uncomfortable Pyle middle school teachers for instance reading canned ADL No Place for Hate advisory scripts. Then, when that obviously does little to curb racist, antisemitic and homophobic behavior, they trot out the restorative circles. I'm all for post-incident healing, but first you have to acknowledge the pain they cause to everyone, hold people accountable (the wrestlers at Wheaton are punished for a coach's decision but kids stating a plan to burn Jewish classmates at the stake get to keep debating? MCPS makes principals call police over homophobic middle schoolers but not antisemitic 17-year-olds or kids doing drugs in the bathroom?) I'm with the columnist. It feels like the county ties principals' hands and uses a strange melange of inconsistent rules and policies to look like they're doing the right thing while the system fails. Make it make sense.[/quote]

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