NYC gets first all-gay high school

[milk me!]

This is just my opion, but this strikes my as dumb. As soon as they leave/graduate from school, they will STILL have to contin with the real world, and unfortunatly, they won't have much hands-on experience with dealing gay/lesbian prejuice when their being walled up in their own little private school.

This almost sounds like an attempt to justify homophobia. "Well, they're gonna get discriminated against, mocked, and beaten up for the rest of their lives. Might as well get 'em started when they're young!"

I know those aren't your words but it's just how I view that argument. Face it. Gay kids don't get any support in public schools. Half of the time the teachers are in on the bullying, if only by not stopping it when they know it's going on. Kids don't learn how to deal with homophobia, they just internalize their anger and either end up lashing out against others or themselves.

Public schools can't teach morals. They try to but they fail. I mean, they tried to teach all of us to "Say no to drugs!", but did it really make a difference? I don't think so. Just the same, they can't teach tolerance. Not that they've really tried to.

I don't really know how this school is going to be different from other high schools but I'm sure that dealing with homophobia in society would be a big part of both the program and the atmosphere of the school. I would bet that students who graduate from Harvey Milk (and if you don't know who that is, visit your local library to find out) High would be better prepared to deal with homophobia and queer bashing than your average group of kids that come out of public high schools.

That's just speculation though. If I turn out to be wrong about that then I really wouldn't see what good the whole school was anyway.

On the one hand, I do agree with Angeteen that the queers need to grow some balls (Or uh...something like that) and stand up for themselves...

It sounds so simple, doesn't it?

Also, I'm pretty sure Matt Shepard was in his 20's or at least out of HS. I'm pretty sure he met his killers at a bar.

Comming soon to an unlisted adult only strores in some tiny no name countries: "Little Boys Gone Wild!" Yessh, I could see where that can be a problem. Fortunately, USA serves stiff penalities for filming anyone under 18 and selling kiddie porn, usually life in the slammer.

I think the school, for some part, is a bad idea as the kids don't have any experience in dealing with harassment and rejection like they'd normally get in public school.

Again, why should harassment be accepted? It's not a fact of life that every kid needs to deal with. It's wrong.

And wer are dealing with high schoolers here, not "little boys". Yeah, underage is underage, whether you're 6 or 16, but really, this isn't going to be a giant orgy just because it's full of gay kids. Shower cameras in the locker rooms? That's kind of a stretch there. Yeah, that shit does happen but is the odds of it happening at this school so much more likely than it happening anywhere else?

Also I'm sure there will be girls there too. This isn't gonna be some yaoi soap opera.

Back in the day when biggots ran around to find every colored man he could, there was a little thing called the Black School and the White School. I promise you that this Gay/Lez school is going to cause a situation just as large as the one that brought down Segrigation.

But it's not segregation. Students in this case have a choice.