President Lily Eskelsen Garcia says "We’ve been working to … [highlight] … the philosophy of restorative justice while focusing on ‘restorative practices,’ including peace circles, peer juries and mediation and community service ...”

In case you don't know what "restorative practices" and "restorative justice" are, they refer to discipline without a punitive component.

Why is the NEA more concerned about the bad kids and what happens to them? What about the good kids who benefit from the removal of the bad kids from the class?

Here is a better title for that NEA Today article: "How exclusionary discipline creates a positive classroom environment by removing the disruptive students and therefore allowing the good students a chance to learn in peace and quiet."

By the way, research does not support "restorative justice." “In general, the research evidence to support RJ [restorative justice] in schools is still in a nascent state. Despite the exponential growth of RJ in U.S. schools … evidence to date is limited and the research that has been published lacks the internal validity necessary to exclusively attribute outcomes to RJ.”