The Auron MacIntyre Show - April 27, 2023


The FAILED Prison Policy That's Destroying American Schools ｜ 4⧸27⧸23


Episode Stats

Length

10 minutes

Words per Minute

148.58536

Word Count

1,544

Sentence Count

77

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

The collapse of quality in American public schools is no secret, and the causes are legion. Every year, our public schools graduate students who can barely read or write and have no hope of finding any nation other than the United States on a map. Some of the factors involved in this degradation are beyond the control of the school system, but many are the result of deliberate policy choices implemented by administrators.


Transcript

00:00:00.140 The collapse of quality in American public education is no secret, and the causes are legion.
00:00:06.340 Every year, our public schools graduate students who can barely read or write and have no hope of finding any nation other than the United States on a map.
00:00:15.260 Some of the factors involved in this degradation are beyond the control of the school system,
00:00:19.620 but many are the result of deliberate policy choices implemented by administrators.
00:00:24.680 Due to a flurry of reporting and an overwhelming volume of video evidence,
00:00:29.300 parents are increasingly aware of the nefarious racial and gender ideology now being taught in classrooms.
00:00:35.820 But most parents are not aware that woke ideology has deeply impacted the discipline structure in public schools as well.
00:00:42.660 A failed prison policy known as restorative justice has now become the standard discipline model in many American schools,
00:00:49.300 even in deeply conservative states, and students are paying the price.
00:00:53.840 Restorative justice began as a movement in the 1970s to offer a therapeutic alternative to incarceration.
00:01:01.240 There's plenty of academic jargon layered on top of the process,
00:01:05.200 but the theory was that by making criminals face their victims and talk through the impact of their actions,
00:01:11.060 rehabilitation could be achieved with a reduction in, or complete abolition of, jail time.
00:01:17.160 It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the problem here.
00:01:20.360 This means placing victims in contact with their abusers and subjecting them to additional trauma for the benefit of the criminal.
00:01:28.720 The motivation for bureaucrats was never really reconciliation for the victims,
00:01:33.360 but instead an overall reduction in incarceration.
00:01:37.120 You see, the left was just as interested in releasing unrepentant criminals onto the streets in the 1970s as it is today,
00:01:43.820 and restorative justice provided the opportunity for bureaucrats to reduce metrics like incarceration time and duration of prison sentences.
00:01:51.840 The literature in favor of restorative justice also advertises its
00:01:56.460 human rights analysis that emphasizes the factors of race and class in the over-incarceration of people.
00:02:03.360 This approach is regularly presented as a way to reduce the disproportionate incarceration of African Americans.
00:02:12.060 Restorative justice was designed from the ground up to create a woke criminal justice system
00:02:17.500 by actively reducing the punishment of criminals in the hopes of driving down incarceration metrics for favored minorities.
00:02:25.580 This system was unpopular with both victims and the wider public, but the movement was not defeated.
00:02:31.520 Restorative justice is still practiced in several states today with varying levels of victim participation.
00:02:39.380 The process has also been translated into a system used primarily for conflict resolution inside the prison system itself.
00:02:47.680 Inmates who have wronged each other talk through their disagreements,
00:02:50.680 confronting one another in a therapeutic environment in lieu of traditional corrective punishment.
00:02:55.480 It's this incarnation of restorative justice that has been brought into the public education system.
00:03:02.240 As insane as it might seem, the government treats schools as prisons for children
00:03:06.680 and applies the same model of conflict resolution in both institutions.
00:03:12.220 School administrators, like almost every bureaucratic manager in the modern world, are driven by metrics.
00:03:18.480 The funding for schools and the bonuses awarded to their administrators are based on test scores,
00:03:24.960 graduation rates, and number of disciplinary actions.
00:03:28.940 Suspensions are bad for metrics, not only because they drive up the number of disciplinary actions,
00:03:33.980 but because students of color tend to accrue them in disproportionate numbers.
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00:04:08.820 Every administrator wants to reduce their disciplinary metrics
00:04:12.060 and is aware that reducing those numbers among minority students in particular is desirable.
00:04:18.460 The advocates for restorative justice champion its ability to do both
00:04:22.720 while stressing its origins in indigenous paradigms.
00:04:27.080 As you might imagine, equity and inclusion are prioritized,
00:04:30.800 and discipline is made a dirty word.
00:04:33.400 Adherence to woke doctrine becomes the central purpose of conflict resolution,
00:04:37.660 and punishment is treated like a backward and outdated notion.
00:04:42.120 When a student misbehaves and disrupts class,
00:04:44.780 especially if that disruption comes as the result of conflict with another student,
00:04:49.040 they're not punished but instead placed in a therapeutic session.
00:04:53.400 The student talks through their feelings with the child or teacher that they were in conflict with.
00:04:58.020 In theory, the student is made to confront their negative actions,
00:05:01.900 understand the consequences of those actions for those around them,
00:05:05.400 and ask forgiveness from the affected parties.
00:05:08.960 This allows the student to return to class having learned the error of their ways without traditional punishment.
00:05:15.520 In practice, this very rarely happens,
00:05:18.380 and the student immediately resumes disruptive behavior upon returning to the classroom.
00:05:22.720 Restorative justice, like most progressive ideology,
00:05:26.960 fails due to a flawed understanding of human nature.
00:05:30.360 We all make mistakes,
00:05:31.660 and understanding the impact that our actions have on others can be an important step.
00:05:36.260 But it isn't sufficient.
00:05:37.900 In our fallen and tragic state,
00:05:39.800 humans willingly act to harm others,
00:05:42.280 even when they understand the negative outcomes those actions produce.
00:05:45.920 For some, the simple realization that they're causing others pain will be sufficient.
00:05:51.680 But let's be honest,
00:05:53.500 often the causing of the pain was the entire point.
00:05:57.060 Many adults are more than happy to cause willful harm to others,
00:06:01.460 and children are still forming their social and moral understanding of the world,
00:06:05.400 and don't have rational control over their more destructive impulses.
00:06:10.220 Many students simply aren't taught at home the moral values
00:06:14.220 that would allow them to place someone else's well-being
00:06:17.420 above their own immediate gratification through vengeance or amusement.
00:06:22.560 In these cases, punishment, not emotional understanding,
00:06:26.640 drives behavioral modification.
00:06:29.320 A student may not immediately care if they disrupt learning or hurt another student's feelings,
00:06:35.140 but they will care if they're being isolated from their friends and lose their privileges.
00:06:40.300 More importantly,
00:06:41.200 removing a disruptive student allows other children in the classroom to learn
00:06:45.460 and not be punished with a more chaotic and unsafe learning environment.
00:06:50.520 None of this is any kind of deep insight.
00:06:53.120 Parents and teachers, of course, have known this for thousands of years.
00:06:56.700 But these simple truths are ignored
00:06:58.640 because they produce outcomes that are undesirable to the bureaucrats
00:07:02.640 that operate the American educational system.
00:07:05.540 Many states, like Florida,
00:07:07.340 have realized the danger of woke doctrine
00:07:09.700 and taken action to ban the teaching of critical race theory and gender ideology.
00:07:14.620 But restorative justice has flown under the radar
00:07:17.320 and allowed woke ideology to become the foundation of disciplinary action
00:07:21.820 for school districts in Florida and other conservative states across the country.
00:07:26.720 That a failed model of prison discipline
00:07:29.340 made its way into American schools in the first place should say it all.
00:07:33.900 But the incentives that drove its adoption are rather nefarious.
00:07:38.920 Administrators know that disciplinary actions need to go down
00:07:42.860 if they're going to receive raises and promotions.
00:07:46.160 Simply put, restorative justice allows school administrators to hide the problem,
00:07:51.760 pretending that a brief therapeutic session has resolved a much deeper issue
00:07:55.720 and manipulates statistics in their favor.
00:07:59.220 Bullied children are forced to pretend that their aggressor has made amends
00:08:03.160 so the offending student can be placed immediately back into the class without consequences.
00:08:09.340 Principals are also aware that the disproportionate suspension of students of color
00:08:13.680 will be seen as racial bias by the school administration,
00:08:17.360 not a failure of the individual students,
00:08:19.680 and value the ability of restorative justice to reduce that metric as well.
00:08:24.560 Parents and conservative education advocates have led a grassroots movement
00:08:28.680 to remove the teaching of woke ideology from the classroom,
00:08:32.240 but they didn't understand how deep the rot had spread.
00:08:36.240 Wokeness is so ingrained in public education
00:08:38.800 that it's shaped even the most basic disciplinary actions in conservative school districts.
00:08:44.900 Parents and legislators have made impressive progress
00:08:48.040 in the fight against critical race theory and gender ideology,
00:08:51.320 but they must now turn their attention
00:08:53.340 to the dangerous practice of restorative justice as well.
00:08:56.600 Students deserve a classroom where they're allowed to learn,
00:09:01.160 and restorative justice seeks to rob them of that environment
00:09:04.620 in the name of woke politics and corrupt school administration.
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