The Goodness Factor
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Integrity and privacy

Honest by design. Private by default. Always a way back.

A record of a child's goodness only means something if it is true, if it belongs to the child, and if a bad day can be made right. Those three promises shape every part of the Goodness Factor.

Read the privacy policyFor schools

Restorative practices

Restorative practices in schools, as the default, not the exception

Mohanji's method keeps deductions small and gives every one of them a way back. Counseling comes first, the Four-Way Model guides the conversation, and the restoration returns exactly what the deduction took.

  • Deduction and restoration together

    A deduction and its restoration sit side by side in the record. Outside the counselor and the admin, the note itself is never shown.

  • Human oversight on every deduction

    Only a counselor or admin can record one, and only with a note. A review board and appeals come with the family view.

  • Equal criteria for everyone

    The same Goodness Matrix for every child. The admin sees who has not been recognized in two weeks, so no child is left out.

“A proper system where nobody can touch it.”

Mohanji's one technical requirement

The record

A ledger, not a spreadsheet

That requirement is why the record is a ledger: every entry is witnessed, attributed and chained to the one before it. Integrity is a trust point, never the headline.

  • Written once

    A correction is a new entry that says so. The record stays honest, and the family can close it.

  • Chained

    Each entry carries a hash of the last. A daily fingerprint, never the data, lets anyone verify that nothing was changed.

  • Attributed

    Every entry names the staff member who made it. Tampering is visible, and it costs the right to enter.

  • Verifiable

    A school admin can verify the whole chain with one click. The code is published for anyone to audit; children's data never is.

Student data privacy

Student data privacy by design

We collect the least we can, keep it where the school can see it, and give the school the controls.

  • Where it lives

    Hosted in the United States on infrastructure we operate for the school. The school is the owner; we are the processor. Each school's data is separated from every other school's at the database level.

  • Who sees what

    A child's record is visible to their teachers, the counselor and the admin, and to the family once the family view opens. Never to other families, never on a public page, never to advertisers. No analytics on any child-facing page.

  • Children do not sign in

    Only staff have accounts. Children have a Goodness ID, not a login, and no personal information is collected directly from a child.

  • Correction, export, deletion

    A school can correct a record, export its records, and ask us to delete or de-identify a child's record. We answer within thirty days.

The details are in the privacy policy and the terms of use.

Questions

The hard questions, answered plainly

Is this a surveillance system?
No. Points come from acts that an accountable adult witnessed and chose to record. There are no cameras, no automated scoring, and no analytics on any page that shows a child.
Can a deduction follow a child forever?
A deduction is proportionate, private, shown in a neutral color and never a label. Every deduction has a restoration path, and when the child makes it right the record says so. Nobody is permanently branded.
Who owns the data?
The school. We process it on the school's behalf, host it in the United States, and never sell it or use it for advertising. A school can export its records and can ask us to delete or de-identify a child's record.
If the record cannot be edited, how do you correct mistakes?
A correction is a new entry that says so, attributed to the person who made it. The history stays honest, and the current state is always clear.
What happens to a teacher who enters false acts?
Mohanji's rule: a teacher who tampers loses the credits and the right to enter. Every entry is attributed, so patterns are visible to the school's review.
Which privacy laws apply?
We build to FERPA and COPPA for US schools and to the stricter of the applicable rules elsewhere. Children never create accounts; schools obtain the consents their own policies require. The privacy policy sets out the details.

See how it works in a classroom

Three steps, repeated every week: witness, record, grow.

How it worksCreate your school