The high school story stuns me. We're neutering a generation of creative/free thinkers and explorers before they have chance to get their hands dirty and properly explore, all because of the whims of loud misguided advocates who choose to engage in the most insignificant of battles.
If I were the family of that "white" kid, I would sue the school district to oblivion for discrimination.
Talk about pretzel-logic! The contortions that the Columbia Chronicle uses to justify this insanity -- it reads like a parody ;-)
http://www.columbiachronicle.com/arts_and_culture/article_d36510d4-0e03-11e8-bb96-bbd49a572e75.html