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Superintendent and lawmakers propose state review of discipline policies, restraints and restorative practices
Summary
State Superintendent Megan Degenfeller and multiple legislators told the Joint Education Committee that rising classroom behavioral problems, and shifts toward restorative justice practices, merit an interim study to consider teacher authority, student consequences and limits on restraints/seclusion.
State Superintendent Megan Degenfeller told the Joint Education Committee on March 5 that teachers report increasing behavioral issues in classrooms — from profanity and attendance problems to physical altercations — and that Wyoming should examine policy choices that affect teachers’ ability to manage the learning environment.
“We’re seeing a far too great of a shift across the country to what is referred to as restorative justice rather than traditional discipline,” Degenfeller said, and she…
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