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[quote=Anonymous]My child was assigned to work on a longish term project with two kids who were friends and picked on him while the small groups were working each day. He asked his teacher (without saying why) if he could work in project by himself-she said no and questioned him about why until he described what was going on (nothing major but annoying and mean to the point of causing dread about school, including small physical stuff like repeatedly shoving his elbow when he was drawing for the project in order to make his marker slip.) she first stealthily observed their group work to confirm the behaviors then initiated a restorative justice meeting where she prodded my son to  to tell the kids it bothered him when they shoved him or called him a nerd, etc (which, no sh1+!) and one boy said a quick “sorry!” And the other boy stone cold denied (even after teacher said she had seen) and then was even meaner for the rest of the project (and the rest of the school year, actually!) my son came away with the idea he shouldn’t go to a teacher for help and that bad behavior has no consequences. hooray, restorative justice! [/quote]

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