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.

              Restorative justice is a revolutionary idea and approach to discipline. Restorative justice is based on four key aspects:
Respect: for everyone by listening and learning to value the opinion of others and not just your own. 
Responsibility: owning up to your own actions rather than blaming the next person.
Relationship-building: working through a structured, supportive process that aims to solve the problem and allows young people to remain in mainstream education.
Relationship-repairing: developing the skills within the school community so that students have the necessary skills to identify solutions and ensure behaviors don't become a habit
        It focuses on mediation and agreement rather than punishment.Normally in schools who don't practice restorative justice, students who get into or cause violent or potentially violent confrontations are quickly suspended without discussion. So these children are banned from school for a few days then come back to school more upset than they were before and wind up doing the same thing that got them suspended the first time.
What it is <---- Link to a video where a few members of a faculty staff voice their opinion on their support for this justice system.

Restorative Justice is key to better schools

  Children from about ages 5-18 has to endure about 6-7 hours a day in school. Many kids leave a not so happy home and enter a building where they are being told what to do. They have to abide by rules which they have to follow or they'll be reprimanded. Many children, predominantly black high school students and other minorities don't come from a wealthy or even a middle-class background. Many of which don't necessarily value their education. There are also few who get very little sleep due to many responsibilities at the home and then have to attend school the next day which brings more hardship in their direction. Our young individuals have been losing sight in what's right and they're levels of interest in making a better life for themselves due to their home environment and also the school environment. A lot of them have nobody to talk to, cry to, or just have anyone in general, whose willing to listen to them voice their opinion.

       This topic struck my interest because this is something you kind of like see on a day to day basis especially in many public schools whether it’s a middle school or high school. 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. 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 that some schools have this Restorative justice 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 like an ongoing problem. Many of our young people are looking for people to talk to and or confide in because 9/10 they probably won't have anybody in the household willing to just sit down and listen, not because they don't want to but because of their busy schedules. Also, being that they're in school basically all day and having this restorative justice program put in to place, they have more opportunity where they can find  actual guidance and learn to better themselves as they begin building their future.