Introducing Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth
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- čas přidán 26. 03. 2011
- RJOY's mission is to fundamentally shift the way we respond to youthful wrongdoing from punitive approaches that inflict more harm to restorative approaches that repair it.
What a great video to utilize as an effective strategy to advocate for our youth. Let's bring back the fun in schools by diffusing all barriers of difference and empower our youth by educating them to see a proactive solution through all their problems. This method is cost-effective and safe for everyone.
This is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing this with the world
Our community, Opaskwayak Cree Nation, In 2003 had been given permission by the new Youth Criminal Justice Act to facilitate such SENTENCING CIRCLES as a group of volunteers, with our Community Corrections facilitating meetings between 2 parties - victim & perpetrator - as an Extra Judicial Measure instead of a lengthy criminal record often resolving the differences with the both parties. It should be expanded as an alternative in many schools & I'm glad it has started here.
Beautiful work! Brought me to tears.
such a beautiful community
My 7 year old class is out of control because the principal has forced discipline out of the school to be replaced with restorative justice in class. Now the teacher has to have 5 min conversations with kids instead of teaching and helping kids understand the material. No more time outs, no more quiet times, no more 5 minutes of recess, no more wright a sentence 10 times and no more consequences. I love the concept for resolving relationships and dealing with medium to big offences it does not work for talking in class or not doing the work in class . Its better to wait until after class or after school is over to ask questions to understand the root of the problem not during the class time. Teachers are being strip of any ability to keep their classrooms in order. Shoreline schools in WA a district with 98% graduation rate (yep a broken system).
Amazing and empowering for our youth and community
Cassidy Friedman, the director of this short video is now in post-production on CIRCLES, the first feature film to examine the phenomenon of Restorative Justice in schools. Please support our film with a tax-deductible charitable at tinyurl.com/jbcgu29
At the start of this video, it depicts a woman asking a child if "before he thought he was going to make it to twenty one" and he said no. She asked him if he feels like it would be a possibility now and he says yes. That's some pretty real shit. I sure as hell didn't see myself making it past twenty one, until I saw age twenty two. As a child, I always hoped and believed that I would be dead by twenty one.
well done Cassidy. Keep up the great work.
Wow, excellent. I'm going to ask my advisor if I can use this for my paper
They're doing amazing work
Awesome!
Children return to the system after they have been punished for a variety of reasons. Reasons vary but one common reason is a child who experiences abuse or neglect at home. Someone who is having a horrible experience at home is more likely to do things to get themselves locked up so they can have a break from their family at home.
I found out talk about the inssue Restorative Justice and mediation in relatinonships as solution for justice...
crazy to think a child's chance at being incarcerated increases when they get expelled from a school
Consider reading the bible.
Bible is not manufactured religions, it is for you educate yourself, to educate your family and to educate all people.
Psalm 78
I wonder whether swift capital punishment is more effective
restorative justice is just treating crime like sin
Iam just watching this cause it’s part of my home work, shi is hella boring
Im skeptical, this shifts responsibility of disciplining children from parents to the educators. When a violent youth goes buck-wild and physically assaults and educator, it prevents the use of discipline tools of suspension and expulsion as a consequence protecting teachers. The teachers are not the only victims that are in need of "restoration" as there are children who want to learn who are influenced and disrupted by trouble makers. Leniency is not an effective deterring consequence of bad decisions or acting out violence.
I hear what you are saying. Often times these circles are high support AND high accountability. Thus the student often has to uphold actions they will be doing to heal the community, the person who is harmed, and themselves.
I disagree with your point on shifting responsibility from parent to teacher. I think of it as shifting the responsibility from the police and disciplinary officers on campus to the community, including any family that person may have.
In these circles the teacher or person who has been harmed usually have a chance if they would like to speak on how that affected them. The offender gets to hear the pain it caused and the consequences it brought and able to empathize as the video said. You see the whole picture instead of doing something wrong and never speaking to the person you harmed again, but instead a disciplinary officer.
Sorry this was long! How this was helpful and clear.
I believe it’s a collaboration between school and home if done correctly, it’s a HIGH ACCOUNTABILITY model!