this is actually pretty funny that this topic came up. I just finished making my teacher website, and on it we are required to put our classroom rules. I wanted to make sure that they know that it's not ok to judge each other based on these sorts of things. But I knew that I would not be allowed to say that, so instead I wrote "2. Ignorance is not allowed inside the classroom, 3. Respect your fellow classmates; not everyone is the same, and that is absolutely OK." (btw if you guys would like to check it out and give me feed back, here is the site:
http://sites.google.com/site/inthekitch ... ilgus/Home .... criticism is absolutely welcome). I think it puts it out there so that the students know that it is NOT ok.