I wholeheartedly agree even though we both know this isn't reality. This is why even though I despise smoking I hate public places smoking bans especially in bars. Let me as a business owner decide if I want my business to have smoking and let consumers decide if they want in. Like I said, not reality.
Again in a vacuum I agree, but of course this isn't reality. A school has to operate as best for the majority AND minority to be best for all. If a kid is getting beat up because he's black, or white, or gay, or straight it behooves schools to try and get people to tolerate one another. You can't teach me if I'm constantly complaining about having to sit in the same row as Johnny black boy. A hidden curriculum has always existed in schools and probably always will. Schools are largely about teaching kids how to act in society. They use bells to teach getting places on times and talk about being patient, think of the stuff you did in kindergarten, stand in lines. I also think parents do such a crappy job nowdays schools get stuck teaching things like personal hygiene that they shouldn't have to. Again it's not ideal and maybe not even the schools place, but it is reality. And school is about more than academics, it's about preparing you to live as an adult in society. And because public schools have mixes of black, white, hispanic, gay, straight, they are going to have to at least attempt to teach them to get along or they can't even begin to think about teaching academics.
Anyways, just my .02 it's fun to talk about I guess.