Wulf wants the school to continue holding conferences, but other staff, such as Heidi Quibell, have seen enough. The boy was unresponsive and the facilitator kept rifling through her script for ideas about what to say next. The girl's parents, meanwhile, fumed. Having a girl say, 'I'm upset because he threw a chair at me' wasn't working. The father of one of the girls says his daughter now views teachers differently-as people instead of cold authoritarians.
Restorative justice helps some kids, some of the time.
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