are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group
No more Black History studies, I guess.
No, because there is a thin line making that distinction.
For instance, at my public high school, I took a course called "Eastern Humanities", that detailed the history of India, China, and Japan. I learned about their mythology, their customs and traditions, and their history.
Did it promote the overthrow of the US government? Of course not
Resentment of a particular race or class? Nope
Designed for students of a particular ethnic group? Nope. It wasn't a required class, and it had about 25 students, whose only connection was that they were all intelligent and interested enough to sit through an entire class that wasn't required.
The biggest one is "promote ethnic solidarity instead of treatment of pupils as individuals" - this is the important part. This is what causes hatred. Ethnic solidarity is a terrible thing, because it allows you to remove the face from hatred. The person whose lawn you just put a flaming cross in isn't a human being, he's a black person, and he's not as good as you. The guys working in the kitchen for pennies an hour at the restaurant aren't human beings, they're just mexicans, and they're inferior. The white person you just mugged isn't a human being, he's a white devil who enslaved your people, so it's ok. The Israeli women and children you just car-bombed, they're not human beings either, because they're the 'other' ethnic group trying to live on your land. The crips you just smoked on a drive-by aren't human beings, they're the other people, the enemies, to be fought whenever possible.
It's a terrible thing to lose your individuality and just start thinking of yourself as a member of a specific ethnic groups, and to hate other ethnicities just because "That's how it's always been". It takes the face off of hatred, because it allows you to treat people based just off their ethnicity, instead of their individual merits. It's a lot easier to hurt someone if you consider them to be a member of the opposing group. If you add in their own identity, if rather than being a random person of ____ ethnicity they're a person with a name, with a face, with a family, with hopes and aspirations, it gets a lot harder.
It's an idea of "Us and Them" that is dangerous to America. For centuries, "Us" meant "We the people of the United States of America", and "Them" meant Nazi Germany, Communist Russia, Hirohito's Japan, the Taliban... outside groups that hated freedom, and were willing to fight us to stop it. Now, "Us" means "The ethnic group that I am a member of" and "Them" means "All other Americans". The prevailing attitude is to feel no affiliation with those other groups, to avoid social interaction with those other groups, and even to begin violence with other groups.
The wording of the law is such that a course which teaches about a culture will be acceptable. If the course is structured in a way where it explains the traditions and history of an ethnic group from an outside, unbiased view of the group, then it will not be prohibited. If it teaches about the group from inside the group, as a way to teach students that they are not individuals, just a part of their group, and must take a part in any hate or violence incited by their group, it will be prohibited.
