Restorative justice is a wonderful concept; a way to make student discipline less punitive and more productive. But in Los Angeles Unified, it's little more than a slogan, generally misunderstood and rarely applied.
The district did a lot of chest thumping two years ago, when it became the first in the nation to ban suspensions for classroom misbehavior. But as a Times story revealed this week, alternatives have been slow to materialize ā and both teachers and students are paying the price.
[For more of this story, written by Sandy Banks, go to http://www.latimes.com/local/e...20151110-column.html]
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