Thanks for the post, careywedler.

I hope you don't mind if I test out some sentiment analysis on your post. This is an experimental bot running on posts that have exceptional positivity or negativity. The goal is to iterate towards a bot that gives content creators and curators actionable and useful information.

Your post was selected because it is in the 99th percentile for negativity.Your post had an average negative sentiment of -0.13, an average positive sentiment of 0.095, and an average normalized sentiment of -0.04

The most positive sentence in your post had a normalized positivity score of 0.379:

"This approach has been proven fundamentally flawed, as research shows adolescents respond more to positive incentives and support."

The most negative sentence in your post had a normalized negativity score of -0.261:

"Some diversion programs, especially community-based ones, can be helpful in keeping troubled students out of detention centers, but Riverside County’s YAT program is instead punishing those students and setting them up for failure."