School discipline based on traditional notions of justice and common sense is increasingly returning to classrooms thanks to the Trump administration.

In April, President Donald Trump signed an executive order, “Reinstating Common Sense School Discipline Policies.”

The order’s purpose was to ensure that the “Federal Government will no longer tolerate known risks to children’s safety and well-being in the classroom that result from the application of school discipline based on discriminatory and unlawful ‘equity’ ideology.”

The order repudiated the Obama administration’s 2014 “Dear Colleague” letter that threatened schools with a Department of Justice investigation if their school discipline policies were found to be discriminatory under a disparate impact analysis.

Trump administration overturning Obama-Biden era discipline mandates and returning authority to local administrators, teachers, and school boards??? pic.twitter.com/CBGnmVnGvI

These were the days before Ibram X. Kendi became the leading anti-racism intellectual, but disparate impact essentially follows his rubric for what racism is. Disparate impact analysis considers racial discrepancies in policy outcomes to be evidence of racism regardless of intent.

In the case of schools, if black students were receiving more suspensions than white students, for instance, that could be seen as a........

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