New York to open gay high school

Gary Younge in New York
Tuesday July 29, 2003
The Guardian

New York City is set to create America's first public secondary school specifically devoted to gay, bisexual and transgender students.
The Harvey Milk High School, named after San Fransisco's first openly gay supervisor who was assassinated in 1978, will enrol about 100 students this autumn in a newly renovated building in Greenwich Village.

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uhhh...

same thing he said.

Well, I was speechless.

if that's the equivalent of not being able to think of anything worth saying....so was I.

That is.... sick and stupid, is it necessary to divide people like that?
Lord is coming soon.

So, let's see. On tax-payer's shoulders they create a separate highschool for children displaying the leaning toward a lifestyle that goes against traditional values but consistent with the social reengineering pattern I've been seeing for quite some time. Not surprising at all. And at the same time a small minority squeal like stuck pigs if a prayer is dared considered before an highschool football game.

Any of you been to New YorK? How about New Jersey and lower Connecticut?
No comment.......

This country is slowly and surely, year after year, slowing going to #! People ignore the obvious but yet continue to walk around asking "what is going on with this country?"............

And having posted this then reading TC remarks....I agree....can't say a damn prayer in school or other such stuff, yet they can agree to propose a school for those classified as "gay"?!
BTW, anyone know how they are going to 'determne' if one is 'gay' and thus has rights to attend this school?!

regards
seekerof

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[Edited on 29-7-2003 by Seekerof]

Okay, I'm going to think that it was a Freudian slip that you included "sqealing like a stuck pig" in this particular discussion.

Yes, I agree to the letter with what you have said.

Taxpayer money to establish a segregated school in which the only qualification is to admit to an attraction to a deviant lifestyle and abnormal affections.

You are also correct that this has been going on a LONG time. When I was in college, around 1989 I believe, OU was hosting the Mini-Baja competition. This is annual event that round-robins through the large Engineering colleges across the nation. If I remember right a particular school will host the event 2 years in a row, and then it moves to the next. Teams from across the nation come to compete. The hosting school is required to build the track on which these cars are tested. for the year in question, the College of Mechanical Engineering at OU got exactly $500 toward hosting this event from the University. That means there was NO money that went toward assisting the OU mechanical engineering team in their design and manufacture for the competition, and that they were forced to raise external funds to fill in to create the venue.

BUT at the same time, the Gay/Lesbian group on camp was given money from the University EVERY TIME they passed gas. They would get MULTIPLE security guards, hired 3rd party and paid for by the University, at EVERY event they had.

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Harvey Milk High School

Please tell me they aren't keeping this name, hehe....
That's too funny! Well, the school will certainly be decorated well, and have an awesome dance troop, hehe...though their football team......

I think this is a BAD idia! Isn't this segregation? Why should gays be FORCED to be seperate? Besides,some 12 or 13 years olds don't even know their gay til they get older.Some don't even know 100% til they are in college or even married. I think this is bad. Gays should be treated no different than Straights. If they fear for their safety,then they need to enforce there school rules when it comes to bullying. Thats the answer,not seprating the gays from the straights!

This is crazy! Nuts! Insane!

And all done with tax payers money!

Now children can learn without being critisized and beaten up over their sexuality that they were BORN with. You people never cease to amaze me. It seems you all have been stuck in your country farm houses for way too long.

Gay people have the right to assemble and not get patronized for it.

More power to them.

Why don't we just divide the country up into segregated camps, eh? Maybe that will solve all the problems of todays society.......

This is nothing but a form of segregation. Gays want to be an accepted part of society but yet they want to segregate themselves from society also?!

regards
seekerof

Originally posted by romantico
I think this is a BAD idia! Isn't this segregation? Why should gays be FORCED to be seperate? Besides,some 12 or 13 years olds don't even know their gay til they get older.Some don't even know 100% til they are in college or even married. I think this is bad. Gays should be treated no different than Straights. If they fear for their safety,then they need to enforce there school rules when it comes to bullying. Thats the answer,not seprating the gays from the straights!

they arent being forced to go to this school. they WANT to go to this school.

if straight people wanted their own school, they'd be called homophobes and would be considered wrong.

if black people wanted their own schools it would be ok and noone would say anything about it.

if white people wanted their own schools they would be called racist and the media would do the modern equivalent of lynching these people in public via your television screen.

it seems when certain groups want to be segregated noone cares but when another group does all of a sudden people go into an uproar over it.

not that i agree with the concept but why is it ok for some groups and not others? the idea behind it is to be with those of your own kind right? why is one racist and the other not? do we know one is racist and the other is not? do we know one side is homophobic and the other side is not heterophobic? i think the answers to these questions boils down to how we perceive the situation.

we're programmed to think that white people who want to be with their own are racist but black people who want to be with their own are only trying to preserve their culture.

if a straight person doesnt want to be around gay people they're instantly labeled as a hompphobe butr if a gay person doesnt want to be around straight people (trust me folks, they exist, this is not just a hypothetical) its considered ok because somehow its assumed the straight people are harassing the gay person.



personally i feel this is a waste of tax payer dollars. i feel this is nothing but segregation and is not justified.

the message this sends is its ok to want to be segregated from everyone else as long as you arent white or straight.

i also feel tax payers should NOT be paying for this horrible social experiment.

i have a feeling its going to get much worse before it gets better.

but they will also have to learn how to get along with people...both those who accept them, and those who don't. The goal of school (especially high school) is to prepare youth for the real world. I'm not so sure this school would be doing that. These students will be in for a rude awakening when they leave high school, upon leaving such an atmosphere of acceptance.

Sure would make for a weird prom huh? What do you do for Homecoming Queen? Seriously, my brother is gay, and I think even he would argue that such a school is a bad idea....

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Yeah,

The country's tearing itself apart!!!
We don't even need terrorists.

If they're gonna do that, they have to make straight schools also.

That's messed up,
Tassadar

Won't the people that want to beat up gays just go to this school? Now they won't have to search for them?

I agree with romantico.

Won't the people that want to beat up gays just go to this school? Now they won't have to search for them

I doubt it.... If they beat up gays, chances are, they wouldn't like having a guy make a pass at them every day also....!!!

This school is going to have a hysterical yearbook!

Just think, Jerry Springer could get a whole season's worth of shows, just from a visit to this school, hehe....

Here in NYC, the gay population is significant, much more so than what people in the "heartland" see... by several orders of magnitude. It's not a "small minority".

This issue began several years ago, and was discussed a great deal. The main issue was not a focus on the virtue (or lack of) their sexual preference, but an environment for education.

There is very little outcry here, because this is a fact of NYC life.