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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Families are inequitable and because families are inequitable, punishments are too. So restorative justice is about equity and disproportionate outcomes and punishments of inequitable families.

The same goes for grades and test scores.

Being a family is hard work and because kids don't choose these things, it is unfair to assign them grades or punishments that are a result of things they can't control.

Hope this clears everything up. [/quote]

So that girl who choked the boy on the bus - she shouldn't be punished harshly for the heinous thing she did because perhaps she comes from a low-income family and just "didn't know better"?  Are you for real?  Do "clear that up" for us.   :roll:  :roll:  :roll: 
DP[/quote]
Correct. More often than not poor academic performance and behavioral issues stem from home life. She may “know” better, but she doesn’t have the tools to control herself. Same with kids who don’t have time at home to do homework.

But rather than redistribute parents and wealth (not happening) to create equitable homes, we remove the outcomes that reflect these inequities. So no unjust punishments that reflect an home life in crisis and no unfair grading systems that reflect family performance rather than student performance.

Maybe you were privileged with a loving home and don’t understand the struggle. Thankfully this school board does and will ensure that equal outcomes prevail. Kids start in the same place and now we can hope they finish in the same place too…. Barely able to read.[/quote]

There is a lot to disagree with here. I am the product of a single mother home - unemployed and an addict.  Yet I graduated from two of the nation’s best colleges with honors. The thing is that doing so was not a heroic accomplishment. No, it was done in recognition of the fact that as a poor kid I had no margin for error like well off kids did. It used to irk me that some of my peers would do drugs, bully, commit property crimes, not do school work and so on and yet get rescued by their parents. Accordingly, efforts to paint me as a victim or in need of safe spaces were quite harmful. By circumstance I simply had a skinnier margin in terms of mistakes and screwups. Did I resent the well off kids? Yes. But they were a source of motivation.

The poster above refers to a wealth disparity. Well, that is accurate. But who reminds young people we have an income tax and not a wealth tax?  And is the education system that mediocre that young people don’t realize capital is treated far better than labor? Complain all you want but that is the reality throughout the West.  And who teaches that wealth accumulation is a long slow grind reflecting good decisions?  And that the most important factor in social mobility is accumulation of human capital. I can see apparatchiks claiming my views are not realistic. Of course such types have not emerged from grinding poverty to a one percent status. [/quote]

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