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My first thought was that it was due to the Obama Era “discipline guidance”, but I had forgotten that Trump had rescinded this.

For those who don’t remember what that is, I posted it below:
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What is the discipline guidance?
Federal agencies often issue nonbinding civil rights guidance to inform local organizations, like school districts, how they plan to enforce civil rights laws.

The discipline guidance put in place under President Obama suggested schools could run afoul of federal civil rights laws if they disciplined students of color at higher rates than their peers. Federal data show black and Latino students are disciplined at higher rates than white students, and the discipline guidance said schools have an obligation to address those disparities.

Why is the guidance controversial?
The stickiest part of the guidance is its language on “disparate impact,” which is the principle that disciplinary policies may violate civil rights laws if they lead to higher rates of discipline for some student groups, even if they are written without discriminatory intent.

Citing court precedents, it included guidelines for determining if a school rule that leads to more discipline for one student group could violate civil rights law:

The policy must be necessary to meet “an important educational goal.” For example, a school rule banning more than two braids might disproportionately affect black students, and it might not be justified for educational purposes.
If the policy is necessary to meet an important educational goal, the school must show it has considered alternative policies that meet that goal while placing less of a “burden or adverse impact” on one group of students.
Civil rights groups praised the directive, saying it provided assurance that schools couldn’t get away with problematic policies and that it would catalyze efforts to address implicit bias.

Critics of the directive said it was too heavy handed. Investigating a single complaint, the Obama administration’s civil rights arm would look at a school’s greater discipline data to see if there are disparities. And some, including some conservative groups, disagreed with how often the administration asserted that exclusionary discipline, like suspensions, caused too much of an adverse impact on students. That position led some districts to curb the use of suspensions too aggressively, creating chaotic learning environments, they said.

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When I learned of this on FR, I was astonished (even though I shouldn’t be) to hear of this Obama travesty. It is absolutely typical Leftism, even the dimmest of foaming-mouth Leftists should look at it and wonder how this wouldn’t encourage violence and racial strife.

I would not be in the least bit surprised to hear some school district or locality implemented some watered down version of this abortion.