The Chicago School board has created a school for young people of the Gay Community. The school officals believe that in public school the student's aren't getting a full education because they are being judged. The school will not be for just gay teen's its for any student who is looking for a change in society's eyes. The name of this new school is The School for Social Justice Pride. School officials said the standards and curriculum for the school would be in line with other schools in the district. The school would also offer counseling for students, though because of federal laws, officials cannot ask students about their sexual orientation. The curriculum would not rely on, but would incorporate lessons about, sexual identity in history and literature classes, officials said.
"It's about creating another option for kids," Edelman said. "When it comes down to it, though, it is all about having a choice and providing high-quality options for students, whether they are gay or not."
My question to you is do you think it's right for them to seperate themselves from the rest of the world? Do you think this new school will help the student's? What if this plan for seperation starts a world wide epidemic for all social group?
Simon, M (10/13/08). CNN. Retrieved October 14, 2008, from Harrasment Cases Web site: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/10/gay.friendly.school/index.html
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Chicago's Big Turn 4 The Gay Community
Posted by MiMi4 at 6:49:00 PM
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Hey Deb Sister!
Well this is coming from the perspective of a person who is sort of in a "protected" environment. At first I thought it was a wonderful idea because there wouldn't be much to discriminate about. I said it wouldn't be much because teenagers always find a reason not to like one another, but anywho>>>>As a student who has experienced private, then public school, then DSA (Dekalb school of the Arts) I have experienced most of the adolescent worlds. While in private school everyone learned not to discriminate against anyone...even though children still teased it was never as severe as public school. In public school if someone didn't look, talk, or act a certain way, they were automatically exiled and forced to find a group of people just like them. Then for the rest of their public school career, they were subject to discrimination and/or abuse. Lastly at DSA, even though DSA is "public" artists in the county have to audition to get in and sacrifice things such as sports and clubs found everywhere else. Therefore there are approx. 275 students in the whole school. At DSA there's little open discrimination and all the "weirdo’s" and "popular kids" kind of fuse together making many things acceptable. Here many people find their comfort zones and assume that its comfortable everywhere. So when we step out of that environment into the "real world" we are automatically the weirdo’s again. In some cases people absolutely love us, but in most cases, the same bullies in elementary schools are the bullies in college. The same people who discriminated in the classroom will discriminate in the office. So I believe closing off a school to only open people, will help people with differences more than hurt them. Its great for a short period of time...but I don't think people should get to comfortable in a place so different from the rest of the world.
Signed,
A Sista
I don't know if I agree with this... I am all for civil rights and gay rights, but i dont think that cutting them off from the rest of the world will solve anything... when the school bell rings at the end of the day, reality snaps back and its all just a slap in the face for all the students. What if we had a school for just straight people? the same thing that they are trying to prevent, isolation, they are conducing themselves...
I think that's a very smart move. Any opportunity for kids to receive thier fullest education without being riduculed, I'm all for. The fact that the school is for anyone who's looking for societal change. I agree with Anonymous. As for Charity's comment, The school isn't just for gay students, and sure, even at that school some gay students will tease others, that's bound to happen at any school, or anywhere people come together for that matter. The school's open to anyone looking for change, and when you think of it, vocational schools may "isolate" students as well.
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