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What I would love to see is accountability without prejudice, and I believe it's possible. My wife's school's population is overwhelmingly Hispanic, and the state came down on them for punishing the Hispanic kids too much without first asking if it was proportional to the population, which it was. So, school admin solved the problem by just holding nobody accountable for anything anymore. Kids have brought fellow members (who were armed) of red team on campus after school hours to go search for a member of blue team; nothing happened, but the school found out about it and their response was basically "whew that was close, let's just not say anything about it and hope it never happens again." They say it's because they're scared of the state, but I think it's just that the state gave them a convenient scapegoat for not doing their job. That's the kind of thing we shouldn't be hoping for; when process is the only thing that matters, outcomes suffer.