I went to public school in California in the 1970s ... I guess I’m about 10 years older than Woods? We had black, white, Mexican, Filipino, Chinese, Indian students. There were gang fights in the junior high (I know my mother was thinking of sending my brother to private school, before we moved), but honestly ... spray-painting a kindergartner? Hitting him with rocks? And his parents didn’t notice and object, leaving *written documentation* including probably medical records? No way in the world.