And that is the heart of the problem: Restorative justice focuses on the needs of the victims and the offenders, not punishment for correction.
But Blacks traditionally punished and disciplined their children. Now with minimal fatherhood, the males are completely running amok. It’s close to ‘Lord of the Flies.’
They threw away the rule book to accommodate unruly boys. The mothers are doing anything they can to prolong their sons’ first entry into prison. It’s illegal and unfair to the rest of the student population and the teachers that have to ‘look the other way’ and degrades the entire system.
They are exempting students from the school discipline code and from obeying the law.
As a teacher, one black student was so disruptive that I referred him to the counselor’s office. I was informed that his adult supervisor (grandmother) could not control him and she gave the school permission to handle it on their own. In other words, she sent her kid to school to be “fixed”. So he disrupted every class. Oh, no other teacher would take him, so he had to remain in my classroom. BTW, this student was smart, he knew the power he had and used it to become the clown of the class when he wished attention.