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.”
The school district in Newburgh, New York, is among more than 1,450 districts—serving around 19 million students across all 50 states—that use restorative justice practices. Those numbers are according to district websites and Defending Education, an organization that tracks left-leaning policies in public education…., 2025-12-07 15:22:00, , US Politics, %%, https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/us-politics/feed?, Aaron Gifford