All-Gay High School

I have decided to take a page out of Raekwon’s book and start up a little “venting” section of my own. I welcome any suggestions for any topics that you would like to hear about.

Now I will move on to my first topic, New York’s decision to start a tax-funded all gay High School. The high school, which has been dubbed “Homo-High” by some critics, is going to be a school for gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender students.  There are many things wrong with the idea and the first I’ll start with is the first idea that came to me.  This school is a private school that is being funded by tax dollars.  I have no objection to an all gay school if it acts like all other private schools and gets money from donations and tuition rather than from the tax payer.  It would be like if I tried to set up a publicly funded Catholic School.  People would be up in arms (and rightfully so) about it. 

The next part of it is that it is a problem is that it is not a solution to anything.  What’s next?  Are we going to make all gay colleges and all gay corporations?  This is a giant step back for the gay rights movement, not a step forward.  This isolates homosexuals more than they are now and portrays them as a group that wants special treatment rather than equality. 

This will not help any of the students that go to the school either.  It provides them with a safe haven which will make them ignorant to the real world that they will eventually have to enter.  It does not fix the problem of bullying that they face.  The bullies will now feel like they won, they drove the ‘freaks’ out of their school.  At some point in life people have to accept each others differences and learn to work together.  This school will make both sides feel like they will always be separated from each other so they do not have to tolerate one another’s views. 

All and all this is a terrible idea and I urge anyone who lives in New York to make it clear to public officials that you do not like this idea.  I hope this idea will not spread to any other area of the US, and I hope it does not continue to find acceptance in New York.

Next chapter: If, or more precisely when, US soldiers find Saddam Hussein, should he be taken in dead or alive?