We have the story now of a radical new school in Washington, D.C., Ron Brown College Preparatory High School. It's an all-boys public school designed for young men of color with a staff of mostly black men. And that staff is passionately opposed to suspending students.
In the early days at Ron Brown, Dawaine Cosey spends a lot of time just trying to get students to follow the dress code.
COSEY: I tell the guys here all the time, like, you're going to get love, and there's really nothing you can do about it.
TURNER: Here, the school practices something known as restorative justice. Instead of being suspended or pushed out, rule breakers are pulled into a circle. And again, the goal here is not to punish the punch but to find out why it happened and to keep it from happening again.
To read Cory Turner and Kavitha Caroza transcript of their interview, please click here.
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