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Reasons for Instituting a School-Based Mediation Program*
1. Conflict is a natural human state that often accompanies change. It is better approached with skills than by avoidance. 2. Conflict in the school setting can be dealt with more effectively by means other than expulsion, suspension, court intervention, and detention. 3. The use of mediation in school-based disputes can improve communication between and among students, teachers, administrators, and parents. It can improve the school climate and provide a forum for addressing common concerns. 4. The use of mediation to resolve conflict can reduce violence, vandalism, chronic school absence, and suspension. 5. Mediation training helps both students and teachers broaden their understanding about themselves and others and provide them with lifetime dispute-resolution skills. 6. Mediation training increases students’ interest in conflict resolution, justice, and the American legal system while encouraging a higher level of citizenship activity. 7. Shifting responsibility for solving appropriate school conflicts from adults to students frees both teachers and administrators to concentrate more on teaching than on discipline. 8. Recognizing that young people are competent to participate in the resolution of their own disputes encourages student growth and gives students skills such as listening, critical thinking, and problem solving that are basic to all learning. 9. Mediation training, with its emphasis upon listening to others’ points of view and the peaceful resolution of differences, assists in preparing students to live in a multicultural world. 10. Mediation provides a system of problem solving uniquely suited to the nature of young people’s problems. They frequently used it for problems they would not take to parents, teachers, or principals. |
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