Or why shouldn't schools educate students on the impacts of LGBTQ people?
because I don't think that it is necessary to stress that this person was gay, or that person was black, yellow, white, whatever. I think we should stress the importance of that person and what they have done, instead of what it says on their facebook profile...constantly having breaking down people into groups has might have an adverse effect - and I think it does. It just points out how different we are, where I think that the point would be to show how similar.
Real life example: I live in a Chicago suburb, that means that the make up of my kids' classrooms is very culturally rich and colorful. There are two black kids in my son's class, a boy and a girl. The girl is quite mischievous and not very nice to the other kids. Anyway, my son asked me a couple weeks ago why she is treated different than he is as well as other kids. When there is punishment handed out for the same bad behavior, hers is always different. As far as we know, she doesn't have a mental issue or a disability, she just misbehaves more than most - but her parents are very outspoken and when in earlier grades she was punished, they would make a big stink about it publicly. And ever since, the school's faculty takes a different approach. Now, whose fault is that? it is not the girl's - kids are kids, and some are worst behaved than others. It is not the parents - they are standing up for their kid like most parents would. I think it is the faculty's fault - instead of treating everyone the same and fairly, they are not - and the reason (at least in my eyes) is the skin color. Behaviors like that is what places wedges between races.
I'll give you another example, from my childhood. I went to a Chicago public school through grade 8. In the 8th grade, there was a black kid that would torment me - he would call me a stupid polack among other things daily. Finally, one day I called him a dumb nigger, or something like that. He went and told on me. And even though multiple other kids told the teacher he called me a polack for many weeks, I got suspended and he got a warning. Again, kids are kids and we both shouldn't have said what we did, but the white principal decided to make it a race thing because she was [more than likely] scare of repercussions of giving the black boy the same punishment as she did to me.