Restorative Justice in Schools

My method with creating this poem was looking at a document that I took notes on and getting rid of unnecessary words and to create a poem out of it. When I took out some words I put together the remaining words. I used the space to spread out ideas that I thought were important. I was thinking about how many schools fail to use restorative justice instead of punishment when writing this. It made me feel angry because so many students of color are facing punishments over minor things like dress code. I also thought about how many students feel alienated and isolated in schools because of the punishments they’ve received. I learned that there are so many different interpretations of poetry. There is a lot of emotion in poetry and its the way you read it that allows you to feel that emotion. This assignment made me realize that there’s no right or wrong answer when interpreting Zong. It also made me realize that Zong has a lot throughout the poems that are related to the authors experiences in life.