Well, I guess I'll say absolutely, yes, when we look at the research on what are the successful components of bullying prevention: restorative justice, a whole-school approach, and an approach that works with the individual children involved and teaches them the skills and the competencies they need to be different.
Also, it's not just about teaching them the skills. What we think about are educative consequences. There are consequences to these actions that need to happen, but they also have to be educative. They have to teach the children or the students a new way of being and moving forward. Clearly, the research shows that those types of positive approaches work, and in fact that the deterrent approaches are not effective in terms of bullying prevention. Restorative approaches that build up the skills that kids need are the way to go.