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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arch-conservatives hate restorative justice or anything involving feelings. They seem to believe that children should seen and not heard and prefer corporal punishment since that's how things were done a century ago. [/quote]

Name calling and ignorant generalization are extremely weak forms of argument.  As an “arch” conservative, I would like to see substantial, credible data before making large scale changes in education, a field that frequently adopts and then abandons the latest fads… to the detriment of kids.[/quote]

Super liberal here (and the teacher who just posted about my experiences). You are absolutely correct. Education is nothing more than a revolving door of fads. I’ve seen so many come and go over my two decades teaching. [/quote]

Whenever someone claims to be a moderate or a liberal, it's usually clear they're the opposite, but simply trying to moderate their extreme views.[/quote]

I recommend not dismissing people so easily. Yes, moderates and liberals can also disapprove of something like RJ. That’s not just the domain of an “arch conservative.”

The PP above dismissed my RJ experience immediately, assuming that I went into it closed-minded. There was no room in her worldview for the fact the circle simply didn’t go well and resulted in victim blaming.

Ideas like RJ will lose all relevance and support if they are so blindly followed. If schools want this to work, it can’t be like what I experienced. I didn’t post above about this, but it is relevant and will get the thread back on track: I’ve had students participate in these circles before. More often than not, the circles lead to more counseling and more trauma. Perhaps they are working well somewhere, but all I’ve seen is a failed experiment. 
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And I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss RJ. You may have noticed but several posters here are professional trolls that want to undermine clinically proven methods like RJ because it suits their political agenda. [/quote]

I’m not quickly dismissing it. I’ve had my own failed experience, in which I walked out feeling like a victim twice over. I’m sure you agree that isn’t the desired result of a circle. I won’t place here what the other teacher did, but she should have been fired rather than emboldened. I’ve also seen it emotionally destroy several of my students, including one who we had to coax back to school after a circle. I gave it a try. I don’t think it works. Perhaps the perpetrator feels better and heard, but it is at the expense of somebody else.

I am not a troll. Trolling is not defined as someone who you disagree with. [/quote]

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