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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 would love to see the “clinically proven” (lol)  data on rj as it’s practiced in the community at large! [/quote]

I don't know about any studies but when they started trying this earnestly at our school it worked miracles.[/quote]

I certainly believe that! But lots if people have had the experience that it did not and in fact has had deleterious effects and I believe that too. Before rolling out something like this on a large scale it seems like teachers should know how to implement appropriately and for thee to be actual research comparing it to other methods. [/quote]

Seems like a common sense method for dealing with a group with issues. Does everything really take training and years of research?

"OK, guys, come on in -- there's been a lot of grumbling about gossip and bullying, and we need to get to the bottom of this and lay it to rest once and for all. That's not how we operate in this classroom. Does nyone with direct knowledge want to share what's happening and how it makes them feel? What can we do to stop this behavior?"

Not rocket science.[/quote]

Teacher with 20 years experience here. That statement above is going to be met with silence. Then you’ll get some louder voices creep in, the ones who are probably responsible for the bad behavior in the first place. They will immediately begin defending their actions and blaming it on others. That statement will descend into chaos and you’ll have absolutely zero growth in the classroom.

It may not be rocket science, but it is adolescent psychology. One may argue they are equally difficult. [/quote]

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