Restorative justice offers better way to discipline students than suspensions, some educators say

A decade ago, principal Keith MacQuarrie was frustrated with the number of students he was suspending for drugs and sending to board hearings for chronic absenteeism. 
He piped Frank Sinatra songs into the lunch detention room at Ermineskin Junior-Senior High School in Maskwacis, hoping students would be annoyed enough to follow the rules. It didn’t work.
Now, when a student acts out at Ermineskin, everyone involved will sit in a circle to discuss what happened, and how it affected th