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This might surprise a lot of you, since I'm one of the resident GC liberals...but I'm really against this. The idea would be a little different (but not much) if it were a school open to GLBT students and their straight allies, and would have a curricular interest in gender and sexuality interests, LGBT-friendly faculty, and active GLBT interest clubs that were accepted, or if it were a private school with the interest of creating a safe space for ALL youth who were concerned with issues of sexuality.
But, it's not. It's a public school that is open to only one type of student. Public schools can't discriminate. Doesn't this violate Brown v. the Board of Education?
I know that the people who are interested in this have their hearts in the right place, really. LGBT students have a much higher dropout rate than their heterosexual peers--in part due to the harassment faced. I remember how my gay male friends were harassed every single day of their four years in high school, and the ones who weren't were firmly closeted.
These things suck, to be sure. But I'm not sure segregation in any form is the answer.
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