There's a lot of hype right now about Restorative talks. We have an entire room that has been set up as a calm area to do restorative talks. Personally, I find it a waste of time & a bit insulting to a teacher. I haven't heard of changes taking place except for making teachers feel disvalued and shamed. Classroom Behaviors..disrespectful students..missing assignments..well let's shame the teacher and have a restorative talk? I call bull!! What's your opinion, & do you think restoratives help?

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I hear you. In theory, restorative talks could help, but if they just shift blame onto teachers instead of addressing real issues, that’s a problem. Accountability has to go both ways, students, admin, and parents included. If it’s just performative, it’s a waste of time. Have you seen any success with it?

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I haven't. The teachers I know who have had to go through this, leave feeling like it was a waste of time. Also, for a follow-up, some of the students behaviors escalate because they feel like they got the teacher "in trouble". Only one teacher that I know of who had a restorative with parent, principal, and student, Saudi that there was a change. The parent was shocked at the behavior of their child and ripped into them, apologized to the teacher, and made the child apologize. However, that is a rarity nowadays.

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We don’t have that. If everybody was on board to make the best out of the situation, make an action plan that has consequences if not followed, I could see the hype. Reality though, it is probably just used as a check box, well we tried, but oh well.

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At our school, it b almost seems like a way to divert discipline and give the student a chance to "talk" with the teacher. No change in behavior.

I was asked to attend a Restorative Justice meeting with a hugely irritating student. Our contract does not require us to take part in these. Enough said.!

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