Suspensions Down, Violence Up: How Obama-Era Policy Fuels School Discipline Crisis

Suspensions Down, Violence Up: How Obama-Era Policy Fuels School Discipline Crisis

David Rein presumed punishment would follow after a bully on the school bus shoved his middle school son around, ordered him where to sit, and broke his glasses. Months later, after learning three other students had received the same treatment at the school in upstate New York, Rein was told the tormentor got a free pass under the school’s “restorative justice” policies. His son never received an apology, Rein said. “They swept it under the rug.…