{"id":1081374,"date":"2021-12-03T16:45:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1081374"},"modified":"2021-12-03T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:45:20","slug":"oxford-high-school-appears-to-have-used-controversial-restorative-discipline-practices-prior-to-school-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oxford-high-school-appears-to-have-used-controversial-restorative-discipline-practices-prior-to-school-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford High School Appears To Have Used Controversial \u2018Restorative\u2019 Discipline Practices Prior To School Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foxford-high-school-appears-to-have-used-controversial-restorative-discipline-practices-prior-to-school-shooting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1081374&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On Tuesday, November 30, a 15-year-old boy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-parents-of-alleged-michigan-school-shooter-are-charged-with-involuntary-manslaughter\">allegedly used<\/a> a firearm belonging to his father to open fire on classmates, killing four students. The morning of the attack, school administrators met with the boy\u2019s parents and showed them disturbing notes found that day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mother-of-michigan-school-shooting-suspect-texted-dont-do-it-during-attack\">indicating the boy<\/a> was willing to do harm to himself and others. The boy also was caught <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/michigan-shooting-suspect-caught-searching-for-ammo-on-phone-during-class-days-before-shooting-prosecutor\">searching for ammo<\/a> on his phone just days before the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>But, rather than disciplining the child, the school simply gave the parents the option of pulling him out of class or leaving him in school following a meeting with school officials.<\/p>\n<p>The description of events seems to be in line with the school\u2019s \u2018restorative\u2019 policy which uses principles based on a controversial disciplinarian approach called \u201crestorative justice\u201d that has been blamed for allowing other school shootings to happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/news\/ethan-dont-do-it-parents-of-oxford-high-school-suspect-sent-messages-during-shooting\">According to Fox 29,<\/a> the following events took place the morning of November 30:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026a teacher found a note on [the alleged shooter\u2019s] desk that read the following: \u201cThe thoughts won\u2019t stop. Help me.\u201d In another section of the note was a drawing of a bullet with words: \u201cBlood everywhere\u201d and a person who appeared to have been shot and bleeding.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The note also read \u201cmy life is useless\u201d and \u201cthe world is dead\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The result of that note was a meeting with parents, school officials, and [the alleged shooter\u2019s] that morning. The counselor took the drawings, but most of the context above was scratched out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, \u201con the meeting, the [parents] were shown the drawing and advised to get their son into counseling within 24 hours. The prosecutor said they did not ask [him] if he had his gun \u2013 which was in his backpack in this meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to an \u201cOxford Community Schools Code of Conduct\u201d pdf <a href=\"https:\/\/p8cdn4static.sharpschool.com\/UserFiles\/Servers\/Server_734760\/Image\/FINAL%20-%202020-2021%20STUDENT%20CODE%20OF%20CONDUCT.pdf\">released<\/a> in June 2020, the school prefers to keep students in school and offer discipline through a series of counseling and other measures:<\/p>\n<p><em>This document intentionally proposes an approach to school discipline that gives preference to keeping students in school where they can receive the academic and social-emotional supports they need. It includes recommended responsibilities of each school community member, and it lists the proactive steps of positive behavior supports and restorative practices available before articulating the school community\u2019s consequences for disruptive conduct.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also, according to that document, the boy\u2019s drawings indicating violence should have risen to the level of harassment:<\/p>\n<p><em>A student will not engage in or participate in any behavior that is included in the definition of harassment or intimidation. \u201cHarassment or intimidation\u201d means any gesture or written, verbal, or physical act that a reasonable person, under the circumstances, should know will have the effect of harming a student or damaging the student\u2019s property, placing a student in reasonable fear of harm to the student\u2019s person or damage to the student\u2019s property, or that has the effect of insulting or demeaning any student or group of students in such a way as to disrupt or interfere with the school\u2019s educational mission or the education of any student. Harassment or intimidation includes, but is not limited to, a gesture or written, verbal, or physical act.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, the document <a href=\"https:\/\/p8cdn4static.sharpschool.com\/UserFiles\/Servers\/Server_734760\/Image\/FINAL%20-%202020-2021%20STUDENT%20CODE%20OF%20CONDUCT.pdf\">notes<\/a> that depending on the kind of harassment, the penalty may be anywhere from a meeting with the parents to an expulsion. If it is found to be a \u201clevel one\u201d infraction based on the handbook,&nbsp; then. school officials are instructed to use the following two-step approach:<\/p>\n<p><em>STEP 1: RESTORATIVE PRACTICE To foster each student\u2019s academic success and pro-social development, the school will consider research-based social and emotional learning strategies and options designed to promote positive behavior and modify negative behavior while holding students accountable and minimizing exclusion time\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n[\u2026]\n<p><em>STEP 2: <strong>ADMINISTRATIVE CONFERENCE WITH STUDENT AND PARENT An administrative conference with student and parent will usually occur subsequent to the preliminary corrective measures described in Step 1, and may include a review of suspension\/expulsion procedures.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Had the boy been sent home that day instead of using this guideline with an emphasis on keeping troubled students in school, then the shooting may not have happened.<\/p>\n<p>Similar disciplinarian techniques were used at Marjory Stone-Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. After learning about the \u201crestorative\u201d practices which allowed a school shooter to carry out an attack that killed a daughter and dozens of others, Parkland father Andrew Pollack has made it his life\u2019s mission to educate parents and root out these dangerous practices.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2019 op-ed, Pollack <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/voices\/2019\/09\/09\/parkland-school-shooting-discipline-andrew-pollack-column\/2221300001\/\">warned<\/a> that school policies aimed at ending the so-called \u201c\u2018school-to-prison pipeline \u2018by decreasing suspensions, expulsions and arrests\u201d were introduced by the Obama administration and were the \u201cpolitically correct thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, he warned that despite President Trump repealing policies focusing on restorative justice, \u201cthey aren\u2019t going anywhere at the local level unless parents take action. If teachers tell you that these policies are causing problems, talk to your school board members and push back against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, November 30, a 15-year-old boy allegedly used a firearm belonging to his father to open fire on classmates, killing four students. The morning of the attack, school administrators met with the boy\u2019s parents and showed them disturbing notes found that day indicating the boy was willing to do harm to himself and others. The boy also was caught searching for ammo on his phone just days before the shooting.But, rather than disciplining the child, the school simply gave the parents the option of pulling him out of class or leaving him in school following a meeting with school officials.The description of events seems to be in line with the school\u2019s \u2018restorative\u2019 policy which uses principles based on a controversial disciplinarian approach called \u201crestorative justice\u201d that has been blamed for allowing other school shootings to happen.According to Fox 29, the following events took place the morning of November 30:\u2026a teacher found a note on [the alleged shooter\u2019s] desk that read the following: \u201cThe thoughts won\u2019t stop. Help me.\u201d In another section of the note was a drawing of a bullet with words: \u201cBlood everywhere\u201d and a person who appeared to have been shot and bleeding.The note also read \u201cmy life is useless\u201d and \u201cthe world is dead\u201d.The result of that note was a meeting with parents, school officials, and [the alleged shooter\u2019s] that morning. The counselor took the drawings, but most of the context above was scratched out.Accordingly, \u201con the meeting, the [parents] were shown the drawing and advised to get their son into counseling within 24 hours. The prosecutor said they did not ask [him] if he had his gun \u2013 which was in his backpack in this meeting.\u201dAccording to an \u201cOxford Community Schools Code of Conduct\u201d pdf released in June 2020, the school prefers to keep students in school and offer discipline through a series of counseling and other measures:This document intentionally proposes an approach to school discipline that gives preference to keeping students in school where they can receive the academic and social-emotional supports they need. It includes recommended responsibilities of each school community member, and it lists the proactive steps of positive behavior supports and restorative practices available before articulating the school community\u2019s consequences for disruptive conduct.Also, according to that document, the boy\u2019s drawings indicating violence should have risen to the level of harassment:A student will not engage in or participate in any behavior that is included in the definition of harassment or intimidation. \u201cHarassment or intimidation\u201d means any gesture or written, verbal, or physical act that a reasonable person, under the circumstances, should know will have the effect of harming a student or damaging the student\u2019s property, placing a student in reasonable fear of harm to the student\u2019s person or damage to the student\u2019s property, or that has the effect of insulting or demeaning any student or group of students in such a way as to disrupt or interfere with the school\u2019s educational mission or the education of any student. Harassment or intimidation includes, but is not limited to, a gesture or written, verbal, or physical act.However, the document notes that depending on the kind of harassment, the penalty may be anywhere from a meeting with the parents to an expulsion. If it is found to be a \u201clevel one\u201d infraction based on the handbook,\u00a0 then. school officials are instructed to use the following two-step approach:STEP 1: RESTORATIVE PRACTICE To foster each student\u2019s academic success and pro-social development, the school will consider research-based social and emotional learning strategies and options designed to promote positive behavior and modify negative behavior while holding students accountable and minimizing exclusion time\u2026[\u2026]STEP 2: ADMINISTRATIVE CONFERENCE WITH STUDENT AND PARENT An administrative conference with student and parent will usually occur subsequent to the preliminary corrective measures described in Step 1, and may include a review of suspension\/expulsion procedures.Had the boy been sent home that day instead of using this guideline with an emphasis on keeping troubled students in school, then the shooting may not have happened.Similar disciplinarian techniques were used at Marjory Stone-Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. After learning about the \u201crestorative\u201d practices which allowed a school shooter to carry out an attack that killed a daughter and dozens of others, Parkland father Andrew Pollack has made it his life\u2019s mission to educate parents and root out these dangerous practices.In a 2019 op-ed, Pollack warned that school policies aimed at ending the so-called \u201c\u2018school-to-prison pipeline \u2018by decreasing suspensions, expulsions and arrests\u201d were introduced by the Obama administration and were the \u201cpolitically correct thing to do.\u201dBut, he warned that despite President Trump repealing policies focusing on restorative justice, \u201cthey aren\u2019t going anywhere at the local level unless parents take action. If teachers tell you that these policies are causing problems, talk to your school board members and push back against them. The only way to keep kids safe at school is for parents to get informed, get involved and fix it.\u201dThe Oxford Code of Conduct manual notes that similar practices are used for expelled students seeking a return to school:The local school board may include conditions in a petition for reinstatement, including the successful completion of a restorative justice process or a similar effort, which the student can complete during the exclusion period or as a condition for returning to school.As of press time, it is unclear whether or not the suspect had any prior discipline issues in school other than the ones mentioned in this article.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}