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Originally posted by Dionysus
As others said, 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. As Kevlar said, when will it stop? I guess we're going to have public schools for the ugly, gothic, and unathletic next. 
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Agreed. We all have things we need to deal with. If overweight, minority, handicap, or any other group that had had problems in school got their own special school, what is that saying about our society. IF the rest of America can cope, why can't they?