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[quote=Anonymous]My kid is at a Quaker school and has been since he was 4. He’s in high school now. They’ve been using restorative justice since before there was a fancy name for it. It is not a replacement for boundaries and consequences, and those things happen too. It also can be really unsatisfying to see a kid who can’t seem to behave continue to misbehave and be disruptive or hurtful. But overall it has produced a really good community in my kid’s school, and my kid behaves and is kind not because he is afraid of punishment but because he wants to do right by people. Other types of discipline certainly create those same results.

It isn’t a fad, but it also isn’t easy and it doesn’t scratch the very human itch for punishment when something bad happens to someone you love. But if you can drop the belief that people misbehave because they aren’t afraid enough of consequences, it is a robust and challenging and meaningful way to be in community.

Consequences still happen, because if someone is unable to keep themselves from hurting or disturbing others they can’t come to school. The purpose of that isn’t punishment, but protection.[/quote]

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