Macky
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Location: USA
Registered: November 2008
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Ok. Harvey Milk is a gay friendly high school in New York. It's been around for a while. Chicago is now considering opening a gay friendly high school.
The reason for the schools is, of course, student safety. Gay students routinely miss more school than others due to safety threats. Students volunteer to attend the school and anyone meeting the entrance criteria is welcome; you don't have to be gay.
Is this the way to go in the long run?
Is this necessary as a stop gap until all high schools are made safe for gays?
Should these schools ever have been started?
For the sake of argument, I have these reasons why gay friendly high schools are a bad idea;
1. It's too much of a 'ready solution' for schools that can't control the gay hate on their campuses.
2. Separate but equal has been tried in the US South, to segregate the races. It was declared illegal, because 'separate' and 'equal' seem to be diametrically opposed.
3. It makes kids attending the school an easy target for hate groups.
4. After high school these kids will be thrown out into the same cruel world. Years of a safe environment ends abruptly. They will have less experience in dealing with a non-friendly gay world and might have difficulties adjusting.
5. Advanced placement and other special education resources, as well as clubs, sports, and other extracurricular activities are not as available to the special schools as they are to the regular schools due to the smaller enrollment.
6. It reinforces the popular prejudice that gay students are different from every one else, and require special handling.
Macky
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity!
Ps 133:1 NASB
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