Today, there are schools that have set up funds to make this program happen and make a change in schools, in hope to rebuild school climate.

Oakland youth and how Restorative justice has helped them

From Oakland, Fania Davis reported for YES! Magazine about Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY), which has successfully influenced the local school district to replace “zero-tolerance” policies with restorative justice—and with impressive, positive results. Under the program, high school students with failing grades and multiple incarcerations who were not even expected to graduate now do not simply graduate but also achieve 3.0+ GPAs and earn honors as valedictorians.

BECAUSE THIS GENERATION IS THE FUTURE and they need some form of guidance!! There are many young individuals that have lost sight in what’s right and just loose interest or care in making a better life for themselves due to their home environment and also the influences of social media. A lot of them have nobody to talk to, cry to or have anyone who’s willing to listen to them and understand their story. So to see some schools implementing Restorative practices program kind of shows that there are a few individuals who have not given up and who do care about the lives of the young people especially minorities who aren’t as well off as others may be. This should definitely be more widely reported to the public because this is a problem across the nation

Zero-Tolerance VS. Restorative Practice

There has been much debate where this program and its practices really work and have better results and benefits rather than abiding by the zero-tolerance policy. Jean Klasovsky in her speech has given many instances where this has worked and has shown improvement.
  Jean Klasovsky on restorative Justice practices

Then their those who are those who are completely against it such as Bill O'Reilly and Paul Sperry who feel that this will be dangerous to the learning evironment.

Bill O'Reilly and Paul Sperry view

Contrary to what the two both believe this change in discipline has done more good than bad. In every change, nothing is going to go 100% how you want it to; so having cons is inevitable.

Despite all the negative the two had to say to the right shows Proven Effectiveness of Restorative Justice in Schools. The Restorative Justice Practices that have been tested and proven to be most effective are voluntary, non-adversarial processes that bring together the individuals involved in a conflict, crime or other harmful act, as well as members of the community, for facilitated, face-to-face dialogue, collective decision making, and action oriented toward meeting needs and repairing harm to people and relationships.  source

Restorative programs typically involve working with students to get them to take responsibility for their behavior through group talking or one on one talking rather than just outright suspension or expulsion. Many schools have their own practices to this approoach, whether its by for forming a peer jury or group circles, where each and every child listen to each other and help one another.

This chart just shows how the questions in restorative practices differ from those of Retributive or in this case the Zero-tolerance Policy. The zero-Tolerance policy has been implemented for many decades in many school districsts which encouraged schools to suspend students for many types of violent or non-violent misconduct including insubordination.
Klasovsky <--- Jean Klasovsky tries to get others attention to this type of practice and shows how it has worked for through her various students.