Part of the issue we're dealing with the teacher pipeline or the teacher vacancy is the school environment that they're put in. And what I mean by that is an unsafe environment. So There was a restorative justice bill that was done in previous sessions that was well intended to provide counseling and mediation and a program for kids that were disrupting the school environment. either by violence or selling drugs or bringing guns into the environment or violence upon teachers and fellow students. And it caused it spread district wide where teachers didn't feel safe and they didn't no longer wanted to be teachers. (25:40–25:55)
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Asserts that a previous restorative justice bill aimed to provide counseling and mediation for disruptive students.
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