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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More on how restorative justice is supposed to work:

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/beyond-prisons/2011/07/08/righting-wrongs-the-maori-way[/quote]

That's nice, but NZ is tiny population wise compared to the US and the Maori are a slice of that already small population.

So made MCPS think they could copy and paste that model into one of the nation's largest school districts?

[b]This never seemed scalable to begin with.[/b][/quote]
This.  Without sufficient expertise, budget, measurement, leadership, communication and accountability, big ideas don't come to fruition.  [/quote]

It has not worked anywhere in the US. It revictimizes victims and allows bullies to continue bullying.[/quote]
+1 I'll say again. No teenager wants to bare their souls and feelings in front of their bullies.   These so called experts are idiots to not know that.  Just read the article about how the Jewish girl from Whitman felt when she attended a RJ session with her perps.[/quote]

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