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Just as with schools that are segregated by gender and race, an exclusively gay school will only shelter them. Once they go to college and get out in the real world, they will HAVE to deal with homophobes and vice versa. IMO I think it is better that they adapt at an early age, than having to deal w/ intolerance later on. I'm not even going there about colleges and jobs looking at their transcripts from a gay school-immediate disadvantage.
At the same time, I understand the want to create an environment where gay students will not be bothered because of their lifestyle, but I think isolation is a bad way of solving the problem of harrassment…especially being a public school…which comes out of our pockets. When will it stop? Will we have public schools for nerds, gothics, the ugly, etc?
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