Oxford High School Appears To Have Used Controversial ‘Restorative’ Discipline Practices Prior To School Shooting

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’s 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’s ‘restorative’ policy which uses principles based on a controversial disciplinarian approach called “restorative justice” 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:

…a teacher found a note on [the alleged shooter’s] desk that read the following: “The thoughts won’t stop. Help me.” In another section of the note was a drawing of a bullet with words: “Blood everywhere” and a person who appeared to have been shot and bleeding.

The note also read “my life is useless” and “the world is dead”.

The result of that note was a meeting with parents, school officials, and [the alleged shooter’s] that morning. The counselor took the drawings, but most of the context above was scratched out.

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