I get your point. However, if a house collapses, 2 or 3 kids might be killed. If a school collapses, 500 kids might be killed, even if it is a stronger structure.
Brick walls have a tendency to fracture in tornadoes due to low air pressure. I have also seen only chimneys remaining in what was a house. Maybe that is because of less square footage versus a wall?
Almost all brick that you see in home construction is a facade. The foundation has an extra couple of inches that the brick sits on (if done correctly, sometimes it's done directly on grade as a quick and dirty), and every few feet up there are little "ties" that connect it to the exterior walls. There is a small air gap between the actual exterior house walls and the brick, which is also why there are slots in the mortar every so often that are called weep holes and allow moisture to escape from behind the brick.
A brick chimney would actually be structural, with multiple layers of brick interlocked since you couldn't stick frame a hole intended for fire and extreme heat to travel through.
Similarly, if you see the commercials for foundation repair that say "if your brick is cracking!" don't make them your first call. Call a structural engineer. Of course the foundation repair company does a free estimate and the structural engineer will cost you, but those USS type companies are not structural engineers and have a service to sell you. They definitely do a legitimate job if you actually need foundation repair, but they legally cannot (if they even have the ability to identify it) diagnose foundation issues and in a lot of cases they come in and do a costly repair job that isn't covered by insurance when all you needed was a brick guy to come and patch things up.