Tweet
Do you really think your child is safer on a government school campus?
San Fran schools use "restorative justice".
"Over the past year or so, the Board of Education (BOE) and San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) staff have focused the majority of their attention regarding safety and student violence on what to do after violence occurs. Students who commit serious offenses at school and are suspended or expelled lose educational time and have an even harder challenge meeting grade-level expectations, which in turn can contribute to making school life a negative experience. An ugly cycle gets established. Compounding this, rates for expulsions, suspensions and other disciplinary actions are higher for students who are in groups not being served well by the SFUSD, specifically African-American and Latino students, and students receiving special education services.
The BOE has turned to the "Restorative Justice" model to address this complex of problems, which they formally adopted as a policy on October 13, 2009. The hope is that this model -- having students who commit offenses become aware of the impact of their actions and take on responsibility for addressing the resultant consequences thereby enabling them to stay in school -- will address the educational cost of students missing school due to suspensions and expulsions and will have a healing and positive result for all affected."
Like liberals everywhere, government should be concerned about the thought--bad--not the action--misunderstood.
Children in San Francisco schools are in danger every day. Not from bullies, but the School Board and Administration.
Shame on us for putting children in this environment of silliness and bullies--with the bullies being told they need to think about their actions before they punch out a student. Imagine, punishment for punching out a kid is to be forced to "think" about it.
More...
San Fran schools use "restorative justice".
"Over the past year or so, the Board of Education (BOE) and San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) staff have focused the majority of their attention regarding safety and student violence on what to do after violence occurs. Students who commit serious offenses at school and are suspended or expelled lose educational time and have an even harder challenge meeting grade-level expectations, which in turn can contribute to making school life a negative experience. An ugly cycle gets established. Compounding this, rates for expulsions, suspensions and other disciplinary actions are higher for students who are in groups not being served well by the SFUSD, specifically African-American and Latino students, and students receiving special education services.
The BOE has turned to the "Restorative Justice" model to address this complex of problems, which they formally adopted as a policy on October 13, 2009. The hope is that this model -- having students who commit offenses become aware of the impact of their actions and take on responsibility for addressing the resultant consequences thereby enabling them to stay in school -- will address the educational cost of students missing school due to suspensions and expulsions and will have a healing and positive result for all affected."
Like liberals everywhere, government should be concerned about the thought--bad--not the action--misunderstood.
Children in San Francisco schools are in danger every day. Not from bullies, but the School Board and Administration.
Shame on us for putting children in this environment of silliness and bullies--with the bullies being told they need to think about their actions before they punch out a student. Imagine, punishment for punching out a kid is to be forced to "think" about it.
More...