Suspensions Down, Violence Up: How Obama-Era Policy Fuels School Discipline CrisisSuspensions Down, Violence Up: How Obama-Era Policy Fuels School Discipline Crisis
Students exit the school bus at Carter Traditional Elementary School in Louisville, Ky., on Jan. 24, 2022. Jon Cherry/Getty Images
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Suspensions Down, Violence Up: How Obama-Era Policy Fuels School Discipline Crisis

Many parents are unaware of the ‘restorative justice’ that replaced traditional discipline in one in three schools to level suspension rates across races.
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By Aaron Gifford
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David Rein presumed that punishment would follow after a bully on the school bus shoved his middle school-aged son around, ordered him where to sit, and broke his glasses.

Months later, after learning that three other students had received the same treatment at the school in upstate New York, Rein was told that the tormentor got a free pass under the school’s “restorative justice” policies.

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