Wow, this post is timely! Your post was really important to me today. I think you'll see why if you have a chance to check out my latest post.

You're right, we can't appologize for previous wrongs done by others. I think it does a great dis-service to kids to try to do that. The issues surrounding privilage weren't discussed until I started college. I think discussing privilage is more effective in the long run than trying to appologize for whatever wrong is most frequently discussed each year. That would actually be learning from the past, rather than doing "damage control" from it.