Too much social engineering and not enough of the basics. I have had more problems with some of the "remarks" my six-year old makes because of the negative re-enforcement that seems quite harmless. You can't keep telling a kid that their culture doesn't exist...there is no "American" culture its all imported. They react just like an adult would. We may be a multicultural society and learn to accept other cultures, but to teach a kid that their culture doesn't matter, that no matter how long their family has lived here that its still unimportant...causes a negative response just as much as any word or classification. I think the schools should drop the se( social engineering) facade and push the "color and socially blind" model that Martin Luther King advocated. Kids don't like to hear that everyone is special except them.