This paper is a rhetorical analysis of Rachel Cohen’s “Rethinking School Discipline.” The author targets the both the general and education stakeholders to inform and persuade respectively. The paper analyzes the claim, ground, warrant, backing, qualifier and rebuttal of the article. The author argues that the current policy on discipline is the major cause for the “school-to-prison pipeline” that unduly targets students of color and Hispanics. The author suggests that a new paradigm is needed to ensure that school discipline is restorative and not punitive.