As I watched this ted talk I felt 50\50 on what Laila Fakhoury was saying. Personally, I believe that school districts should have some type of zero tolerance on things. How else are elementary schools going to teach these young children what’s right from wrong if you don’t teach them at a young age. Once they hit high school, they won’t know or they won’t care and do things they are not supposed to. I’m not saying be a strict and boring in schools, be fun with stuff but also make it real and serious. They need these learning stages as a child. But I also think that having a restorative justice program will definitely help children and high school students. There are thousands of things running through a child's head a day, it could be good or bad, they could be happy, sad, angry. But sometimes these students don’t get the attention that they need. Sometimes all a child wants for an adult figure is to just listen to them and their stories. Sometimes they also need to vent or express their feelings. At school, students don’t always get the time to do that, which makes them hold in what’s going on in their mind. Maybe we could have a time period during the day like a study hall but for children to come and just talk, get things off their chest. I believe that both of these two things can help decrease all sorts of juvenile behavior. -PB001
At the beginning of Laila’s speech when she first mentioned restorative justice, my first thought was “there is no way this could work is the prison system,” but towards the end of her speech I learned I was mistaken. I agree with Laila completely when it comes to restorative justice with the younger aged students. I agree that most Kindergarteners through fourth graders would be willing to sit down with their peers and their teacher and talk about issues or problems they may have at home or with each other. Throughout this process I also agree that there will be less fights, suspensions and trouble making throughout the rest of these kids schooling. I think the only problem with restorative justice is the older kids in middle school, high school, or even the children that are already in the juvenile justice system, I do not think all of these kids would be willing to talk about their feeling and problems in front of their other classmates. It would mean these kids would have to become vulnerable and most kids that are already causing trouble at these older ages would not be open to that. Other than that, I believe that starting restorative justice at an early age in schools would be much more effective on children behavior that the zero-tolerance policy. -LW001
On this Ted talk Laila Fakhoury speaks upon restorative justice and how it effects people in many different ways. She gives her example on when she was a kid and it was the first time she had been sent to the principals office. She was sent because the jacket that she had worn was not allowed in the school. She also speaks on how schools kick out students for doing banned acts. By kicking the student out they don't learn anything from being kicked out. They just learn to be more sneaky about what they are doing. If a student has done something that could possibly get them kicked out, why not try to see why they did it. It could stop future kids from getting into trouble. Most kids just need someone to talk to or they need attention that they are not getting from there parents or family. Restorative Justice can change so many peoples lives. It can help change a persons life and way of thinking no matter the situation. It can even help them by learning how to deal with there emotions. Restorative Justice is a major topic and should be used and taught in school and jobs. Batman001
In this Ted Talk video, Laila Fakhoury talks about how restorative justice is the most effective method towards the outdated version of zero tolerance so we can fix the damage already done. She says that restorative justice helps restore relationships and repair harm which brings all who were involved together so they can state their feelings, concerns, and their view on the situation. I like how in the video she talks about replacing the zero tolerance rule for restorative justice and all the improvements that would go along with switching to this type of justice. The improvements would be a rise in positive student interaction, a drop in disciplinary problems, and a narrower school to Prison Pipeline. I agree with Laila when she talks about that the restorative justice can’t solve all the problems with misbehaving but it can identify the psychological issues that cause students to act out and misbehave. When students get into trouble with the zero tolerance rule, they think that they are labeled as a bad kid which leads them to believe it and they continue to deviate because that is just in their nature now. In Laila’s example of her friend Lolita Barthel shows how zero tolerance in schools is what can cause juvenile delinquency but all schools have to do is just listen to the kids and from then on keep listening so that they have someone on their side before they try to show people with misbehaving. -HL001
In this Ted Talk, Laila Fakhoury starts off with an anectdote from her childhood. She explains her school’s zero tolerance policy got her suspended. Not for a justifiable offense like cheating or fighting, but because the zip up hoodie she was wearing didn’t have her school’s emblem on it. This story of zero tolerance is comparable to how our criminal justice system functions. Policies are put into place to fix a certain, large scale, issue and usually end up damaging the system more by catching all the low level offenders and punishing them as if they are violent, dangerous, serious criminals. Restorative justice though suggests that bringing people together the victim, the perpetrator and the community, we can see more positive outcomes. In this scenario Ms. Fakhoury is talking about schools, and says that this form of justice creates less fear of punishment, improves communication, and less harsh punishment for minor infractions that a student may commit. Imagine if the low level offenders that are locked up in jails nationwide right now had gone through a school system that believed in restorative justice over zero tolerance. If the individuals I am speaking of had not been labeled as delinquent at a young age for the most minor of offenses there is a very large chance that a majority of them would not be incarcerated today. The kind of punishments we use on children really do roll over into their adult lives. I would rather live in a world of people raised using reformative justice than I would in a world of zero tolerance. -psych001
After watching this Ted Talk, I learned that schools create zero-tolerance policies with good intentions to prevent students from bringing drugs and weapons to school. It just creates fear and does not solve individual students’ problems or the campus. In her speech, I learned that many progressive schools use a method such as restorative justice that focuses on repairing the connection between students and administrations. I like her idea of using restorative justice in school campuses. In a reason that it can improve positive student interactions, drop in disciplinary problems and narrower school to prison pipeline. I believe it will be helpful to lower and stop juveniles’ offenders from increasing. Rather than disciplinary action that suspends students from attending school because of their bad behavior and misconduct. Help them to understand what they did wrong and help them to be better. In my opinion, zero-tolerance must be terminate because it only creates fear for student and harmful actions. Restorative justice should be and must be implemented in every school campus with the help of the school administrator and teachers. Children do not need to learn fear from school. Most children want someone they can talk to and listen to what they feel because sometimes they are not getting those at home with their parents or family. -Cancun001
Restorative Justice when applied at a young age trains students to express themselves in constructive ways. One of the main downsides in a new generation is the inability to express themselves through words (mostly because of technologies and what they were taught growing up). Many young people REFUSE to let themselves be vulnerable. They do not know how to speak up when it is the most important or to speak up to protect themselves (This accurate, I know from personal experience because FEAR is easily put upon children). Kids normally resort to fighting and misbehaving instead of talking about what really hurts inside (that does not happen all the time but I had many buffers in my life that showed me the right way).. Restorative Justice helps students (or children in general) to express their feelings in positive ways and to understand each other. They learn how to communicate in healthier ways and it works in the long run. When students get labels (this applies to Labeling theory: when a person is given a label they can either accept or refuse the label. Accepting the label normally ends up in “bad behavior.”) they start behaving according to that label. If they are told they are a bad kid they will start to believe that it is just who they are. Overall kids that are experiencing no tolerance at school and other places rather than restorative justice practices are more likely to go from school to prison because they were never taught how to express their behavior. -TanLionNala001
I think that it is a good thing that schools implement zero tolerance policies, it lays down the exact line for students. Especially when it comes to serious cases such as guns and drugs. In the ted talk she talked about restorative justice and how it can bridge the gap between students and administrators. Suspending kids for a week will just not do, the schools giving the kids a mini vacation to go do whatever they want on the streets is not the answer. But rather help them understand their actions and help them improve their behavior. The school to prison road needs to narrow. And schools need to stop labeling kids based on their behavior. Telling a kid over and over again what he is and what he is going to be is going to mold them into that person so positive reinforcement is key. At that age basic communication is essential to helping the child. Some children may not respond to fear but will respond better if they are just able to talk to somebody. Restorative Justice is essential to juveniles.-Purdue001
In her TED Talk, Laila Fakhoury, expresses how restorative justice is much more effective than zero tolerance, especially in children. Zero tolerance was originally implemented to keep drugs and weapons out of school, for the greater safety of the kids. Now zero tolerance is used for anything considered misconduct, regardless of how this will affect the child. These kids are getting in trouble for things such as sleeping in the classroom, cursing, or possessing tobacco products. Restorative justice is a highly effective method; encouraging accountability, reporting harm, and restoring relationships. Using restorative justice will bring the community together with feelings and concern, rather than requiring retribution. This alternative is so important because; it helps with positive student interactions, drop in discipline problems, and narrows the school to prison pipeline. We must teach children how to express constructively through words, without communication there will be fighting. Working how to identify the problem can help reduce delinquency. We can not give up on our children. Schools essentially are giving up on some of these children, making it much easier for them to fall down the wrong path. We all need humanity and want to be heard. Let us create peace instead of neglecting it. -KF001
The term Restorative Justice is very familiar to me from past classes I have taken, and each time I watch a speaker talk I learn something new, or it concretes itself further. The process of bringing together a criminal and their victim(s) or in this case, a juvenile and their victim(s), has proven itself to work in many different ways. The speaker in this TED talk also spoke a lot of the "zero tolerance" rules that many school have in place in order to discipline the youth who need it, but as the speaker stated it just causes further issues. The kid begins to view themselves in a way that the school places on them which can cause habitual behavior due to an inability to talk about their personal problems. I feel that restorative justice being implemented for our juveniles who find themselves in trouble could cause them to reflect on their actions and see how it further affected their victims. Open communication for a child who is struggling can make such a large difference because if they are able to be forgiven by their victims they may understand on a deeper level of how humiliating it can be to own up to a mistake. Humility in the face of their victim could let fear of crime be instilled in their minds and this could prevent a future of criminal offences. -Blues001
This video shows how restorative justice can be used as opposed to using zero tolerance. The speaker, Laila Fakhoury, illustrates the many ways in which restorative justice can keep juveniles out of trouble by expressing their thoughts to each other. Restorative justice aims to encourage accountability, repair harms done, and repair relationships. I had heard about this while dealing with adults but never really applied the thought of restorative justice to juveniles. Laila Fakhoury goes on to speak about the success schools have had with restorative justice over zero tolerance. I knew juveniles could get kicked out of school for some things but I didn’t know just how petty some of the things were; which is because of the zero tolerance policies. The programs following the restoratives justice methods would have kids sit around in a circle, those who were directly involved and those who were harmed by the incident, and talk about how the incident affected them and their feelings. This makes a lot of sense because juveniles deal with a lot of emotions and to humanize those feelings with one another can lead to a better understanding of what each person if going through and get to the root of the problem. Something that was interesting was hearing about how certain labels affect juveniles and can lead to them acting as the label implies, such as zero tolerance can imply bad kid. This was an interesting video and it shows how juveniles are not adults and should be treated with more care and understanding. ~PJWB001
while watching the video and hearing her talk about going to the principals office and getting in trouble by just wearing a jacket over her uniform is outrageous to me i feel like she should be allowed to wear something over her uniform, she could have been cold or just not feeling very well.o or just very ill. i feel that a person should feel free to wear something as they please as long as it is not showing anything. the principal should have not sent her home for wearing a jacket over the uniform and just be told to take it off or make her put it on under the uniform. with her talking about what she says about bring the kids into a circle and talking about how they feel or what should happen with all the bullies and bring them out. and confronting them out. i feel that with having kids start to confront people that they will not be so scared to confront people in person when they begin to get older in lifeberetta001
As I watched this ted talk I felt 50\50 on what Laila Fakhoury was saying. Personally, I believe that school districts should have some type of zero tolerance on things. How else are elementary schools going to teach these young children what’s right from wrong if you don’t teach them at a young age. Once they hit high school, they won’t know or they won’t care and do things they are not supposed to. I’m not saying be a strict and boring in schools, be fun with stuff but also make it real and serious. They need these learning stages as a child. But I also think that having a restorative justice program will definitely help children and high school students. There are thousands of things running through a child's head a day, it could be good or bad, they could be happy, sad, angry. But sometimes these students don’t get the attention that they need. Sometimes all a child wants for an adult figure is to just listen to them and their stories. Sometimes they also need to vent or express their feelings. At school, students don’t always get the time to do that, which makes them hold in what’s going on in their mind. Maybe we could have a time period during the day like a study hall but for children to come and just talk, get things off their chest. I believe that both of these two things can help decrease all sorts of juvenile behavior. -PB001
ReplyDeleteAt the beginning of Laila’s speech when she first mentioned restorative justice, my first thought was “there is no way this could work is the prison system,” but towards the end of her speech I learned I was mistaken. I agree with Laila completely when it comes to restorative justice with the younger aged students. I agree that most Kindergarteners through fourth graders would be willing to sit down with their peers and their teacher and talk about issues or problems they may have at home or with each other. Throughout this process I also agree that there will be less fights, suspensions and trouble making throughout the rest of these kids schooling. I think the only problem with restorative justice is the older kids in middle school, high school, or even the children that are already in the juvenile justice system, I do not think all of these kids would be willing to talk about their feeling and problems in front of their other classmates. It would mean these kids would have to become vulnerable and most kids that are already causing trouble at these older ages would not be open to that. Other than that, I believe that starting restorative justice at an early age in schools would be much more effective on children behavior that the zero-tolerance policy. -LW001
ReplyDeleteOn this Ted talk Laila Fakhoury speaks upon restorative justice and how it effects people in many different ways. She gives her example on when she was a kid and it was the first time she had been sent to the principals office. She was sent because the jacket that she had worn was not allowed in the school. She also speaks on how schools kick out students for doing banned acts. By kicking the student out they don't learn anything from being kicked out. They just learn to be more sneaky about what they are doing. If a student has done something that could possibly get them kicked out, why not try to see why they did it. It could stop future kids from getting into trouble. Most kids just need someone to talk to or they need attention that they are not getting from there parents or family. Restorative Justice can change so many peoples lives. It can help change a persons life and way of thinking no matter the situation. It can even help them by learning how to deal with there emotions. Restorative Justice is a major topic and should be used and taught in school and jobs. Batman001
ReplyDeleteIn this Ted Talk video, Laila Fakhoury talks about how restorative justice is the most effective method towards the outdated version of zero tolerance so we can fix the damage already done. She says that restorative justice helps restore relationships and repair harm which brings all who were involved together so they can state their feelings, concerns, and their view on the situation. I like how in the video she talks about replacing the zero tolerance rule for restorative justice and all the improvements that would go along with switching to this type of justice. The improvements would be a rise in positive student interaction, a drop in disciplinary problems, and a narrower school to Prison Pipeline. I agree with Laila when she talks about that the restorative justice can’t solve all the problems with misbehaving but it can identify the psychological issues that cause students to act out and misbehave. When students get into trouble with the zero tolerance rule, they think that they are labeled as a bad kid which leads them to believe it and they continue to deviate because that is just in their nature now. In Laila’s example of her friend Lolita Barthel shows how zero tolerance in schools is what can cause juvenile delinquency but all schools have to do is just listen to the kids and from then on keep listening so that they have someone on their side before they try to show people with misbehaving. -HL001
ReplyDeleteIn this Ted Talk, Laila Fakhoury starts off with an anectdote from her childhood. She explains her school’s zero tolerance policy got her suspended. Not for a justifiable offense like cheating or fighting, but because the zip up hoodie she was wearing didn’t have her school’s emblem on it. This story of zero tolerance is comparable to how our criminal justice system functions. Policies are put into place to fix a certain, large scale, issue and usually end up damaging the system more by catching all the low level offenders and punishing them as if they are violent, dangerous, serious criminals. Restorative justice though suggests that bringing people together the victim, the perpetrator and the community, we can see more positive outcomes. In this scenario Ms. Fakhoury is talking about schools, and says that this form of justice creates less fear of punishment, improves communication, and less harsh punishment for minor infractions that a student may commit. Imagine if the low level offenders that are locked up in jails nationwide right now had gone through a school system that believed in restorative justice over zero tolerance. If the individuals I am speaking of had not been labeled as delinquent at a young age for the most minor of offenses there is a very large chance that a majority of them would not be incarcerated today. The kind of punishments we use on children really do roll over into their adult lives. I would rather live in a world of people raised using reformative justice than I would in a world of zero tolerance. -psych001
ReplyDeleteAfter watching this Ted Talk, I learned that schools create zero-tolerance policies with good intentions to prevent students from bringing drugs and weapons to school. It just creates fear and does not solve individual students’ problems or the campus. In her speech, I learned that many progressive schools use a method such as restorative justice that focuses on repairing the connection between students and administrations. I like her idea of using restorative justice in school campuses. In a reason that it can improve positive student interactions, drop in disciplinary problems and narrower school to prison pipeline. I believe it will be helpful to lower and stop juveniles’ offenders from increasing. Rather than disciplinary action that suspends students from attending school because of their bad behavior and misconduct. Help them to understand what they did wrong and help them to be better. In my opinion, zero-tolerance must be terminate because it only creates fear for student and harmful actions. Restorative justice should be and must be implemented in every school campus with the help of the school administrator and teachers. Children do not need to learn fear from school. Most children want someone they can talk to and listen to what they feel because sometimes they are not getting those at home with their parents or family. -Cancun001
ReplyDeleteRestorative Justice when applied at a young age trains students to express themselves in constructive ways. One of the main downsides in a new generation is the inability to express themselves through words (mostly because of technologies and what they were taught growing up). Many young people REFUSE to let themselves be vulnerable. They do not know how to speak up when it is the most important or to speak up to protect themselves (This accurate, I know from personal experience because FEAR is easily put upon children). Kids normally resort to fighting and misbehaving instead of talking about what really hurts inside (that does not happen all the time but I had many buffers in my life that showed me the right way).. Restorative Justice helps students (or children in general) to express their feelings in positive ways and to understand each other. They learn how to communicate in healthier ways and it works in the long run. When students get labels (this applies to Labeling theory: when a person is given a label they can either accept or refuse the label. Accepting the label normally ends up in “bad behavior.”) they start behaving according to that label. If they are told they are a bad kid they will start to believe that it is just who they are. Overall kids that are experiencing no tolerance at school and other places rather than restorative justice practices are more likely to go from school to prison because they were never taught how to express their behavior.
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I think that it is a good thing that schools implement zero tolerance policies, it lays down the exact line for students. Especially when it comes to serious cases such as guns and drugs. In the ted talk she talked about restorative justice and how it can bridge the gap between students and administrators. Suspending kids for a week will just not do, the schools giving the kids a mini vacation to go do whatever they want on the streets is not the answer. But rather help them understand their actions and help them improve their behavior. The school to prison road needs to narrow. And schools need to stop labeling kids based on their behavior. Telling a kid over and over again what he is and what he is going to be is going to mold them into that person so positive reinforcement is key. At that age basic communication is essential to helping the child. Some children may not respond to fear but will respond better if they are just able to talk to somebody. Restorative Justice is essential to juveniles.-Purdue001
ReplyDeleteIn her TED Talk, Laila Fakhoury, expresses how restorative justice is much more effective than zero tolerance, especially in children. Zero tolerance was originally implemented to keep drugs and weapons out of school, for the greater safety of the kids. Now zero tolerance is used for anything considered misconduct, regardless of how this will affect the child. These kids are getting in trouble for things such as sleeping in the classroom, cursing, or possessing tobacco products. Restorative justice is a highly effective method; encouraging accountability, reporting harm, and restoring relationships. Using restorative justice will bring the community together with feelings and concern, rather than requiring retribution. This alternative is so important because; it helps with positive student interactions, drop in discipline problems, and narrows the school to prison pipeline. We must teach children how to express constructively through words, without communication there will be fighting. Working how to identify the problem can help reduce delinquency. We can not give up on our children. Schools essentially are giving up on some of these children, making it much easier for them to fall down the wrong path. We all need humanity and want to be heard. Let us create peace instead of neglecting it.
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The term Restorative Justice is very familiar to me from past classes I have taken, and each time I watch a speaker talk I learn something new, or it concretes itself further. The process of bringing together a criminal and their victim(s) or in this case, a juvenile and their victim(s), has proven itself to work in many different ways. The speaker in this TED talk also spoke a lot of the "zero tolerance" rules that many school have in place in order to discipline the youth who need it, but as the speaker stated it just causes further issues. The kid begins to view themselves in a way that the school places on them which can cause habitual behavior due to an inability to talk about their personal problems. I feel that restorative justice being implemented for our juveniles who find themselves in trouble could cause them to reflect on their actions and see how it further affected their victims. Open communication for a child who is struggling can make such a large difference because if they are able to be forgiven by their victims they may understand on a deeper level of how humiliating it can be to own up to a mistake. Humility in the face of their victim could let fear of crime be instilled in their minds and this could prevent a future of criminal offences. -Blues001
ReplyDeleteThis video shows how restorative justice can be used as opposed to using zero tolerance. The speaker, Laila Fakhoury, illustrates the many ways in which restorative justice can keep juveniles out of trouble by expressing their thoughts to each other. Restorative justice aims to encourage accountability, repair harms done, and repair relationships. I had heard about this while dealing with adults but never really applied the thought of restorative justice to juveniles. Laila Fakhoury goes on to speak about the success schools have had with restorative justice over zero tolerance. I knew juveniles could get kicked out of school for some things but I didn’t know just how petty some of the things were; which is because of the zero tolerance policies. The programs following the restoratives justice methods would have kids sit around in a circle, those who were directly involved and those who were harmed by the incident, and talk about how the incident affected them and their feelings. This makes a lot of sense because juveniles deal with a lot of emotions and to humanize those feelings with one another can lead to a better understanding of what each person if going through and get to the root of the problem. Something that was interesting was hearing about how certain labels affect juveniles and can lead to them acting as the label implies, such as zero tolerance can imply bad kid. This was an interesting video and it shows how juveniles are not adults and should be treated with more care and understanding. ~PJWB001
ReplyDeletewhile watching the video and hearing her talk about going to the principals office and getting in trouble by just wearing a jacket over her uniform is outrageous to me i feel like she should be allowed to wear something over her uniform, she could have been cold or just not feeling very well.o or just very ill. i feel that a person should feel free to wear something as they please as long as it is not showing anything. the principal should have not sent her home for wearing a jacket over the uniform and just be told to take it off or make her put it on under the uniform. with her talking about what she says about bring the kids into a circle and talking about how they feel or what should happen with all the bullies and bring them out. and confronting them out. i feel that with having kids start to confront people that they will not be so scared to confront people in person when they begin to get older in lifeberetta001
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