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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found the article in Bethesda Magazine an easier read than having to sit through that meeting, but my takeaway were:

1) The county lacks any metrics on the effectiveness of RJ
2) The CEO program is doing its job and seems to be working, but it lacks metrics to assess this compared with SROs.

Seems like they lack actual data to make informed choices. Maybe that's by design but who knows?

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I'm still trying to make my way through it. I found it interesting that they did things like lumped Epi-Pen medical emergencies with medical emergencies from fights so there was no way to get a clear picture of how many times students have had to get medical help from school violence. One question that was asked more than once was about the rate of kids that reoffend once they go through the RJ process and nobody was able to answer that. I think that should be one of the MAIN indicators on if it's working or not.[/quote]
IMO, they are purposefully obscuring that info.[/quote]

It seems that way, but what would they have to gain from this? That just makes matters worse for everyone.

I wish there was a way to hold them accountable and require follow up to provide this information. [/quote]
What they have to gain is that they can hide how ineffective RJ is, and how crime is up in MCPS after SROs were removed.

It justifies keeping RJ and not having SROs.[/quote]

Okay, but why would they want to keep RJ If it's ineffective? Wouldn't that just make matters worse for them? Seriously, I just can't understand why they wouldn't want to make the best possible decisions since this impacts the welfare of so many students.[/quote]

You must be new to MoCo.

All MoCo progressives care about is the perception of RJ and social justice. They don't actually care whether the program works or not.  They don't actually care about all kids, only that the perception that black/brown kids aren't getting into trouble at a higher rate than the other groups.  Nevermind that the victims tend to be mostly URM kids.[/quote]
Exactly. Their goal seems to be to collapse public schools.[/quote]

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