Segregation isn't the way to go, is it?

[TXlib]

First public gay high school to open in NYC

Wouldn't it make more sense, both cost-wise and societally, to spend money in existing schools on tolerance education?

[GOPisEvil]

1. I see why there is a need for someplace like this...

...but it is an idictment of our society that homosexuals have to segregate themselves just to get an education.

[commander bunnypants]

2. Well

Here in America- Cant let people just live and let live.

Down with Free Republic


DEMMAN

[soleft]

3. I see this much more like like a Haight Ashbury type thing

Or how about Democratic Underground for that matter. People of similar mindset and sensilibities wanting to on a voluntary basis be part of a community where they don't have to put up with the abuse of those that do not tolerate them.

[TXlib]

4. Yes, but to how many "special" groups will we end up catering?

I think it's less problematic to spend adequate attention making sure that public school students practice tolerance, or face stiff sanctions.

[noiretextatique]

6. by high school, it's often too late

ever see the film "teaching tolerance?" the teaching has to start early, for maximum effectiveness. by high school, attitudes and prejudices are pretty firmly entrenched.

[damnraddem]

5. It's always difficult to decide this.

Groups that are 'different,' whether or not oppressed, stigmatized, or mistreated, often feel the need to have a place 'to get away.' I've heard this, for example, from highly-successful people with LD -- they loved spaces where LD students could get together and not have to deal with 'the others.' Likewise, many women crave all-women colleges. On the other hand, segregation does not, by definition, bring people together; and sometimes endorses unequal treatment. Even in the most diverse schools and other venues, people often sort themselves out to 'be with those of my kind' -- but at least then it's by choice, and allows people to define which aspect of themselves constitutes who is of their kind.

[TXlib]

8. LD? What's that?

[Character Assassin]

7. $3.2 million for 100 students?

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/gayschool030728.html

No. Way.