Ian Jobling on Dispatches from a Wonderer

Thanks for sharing this! Person A does not seem to have read my article at all. He complains that I am advocating for restorative justice, a term that I do not use a single time in the article. Also, my argument does not imply that it is inappropriate to discipline children at schools, as Person A seems to think it does. I discuss two justifications for discipline policies, the quarantine principle and deterrence. My argument is just that retribution is not an appropriate basis for discipline policies, not that discipline itself is illegitimate. It's a really interesting example of how readers project their own concerns onto a piece of writing and totally ignore what it's actually saying.