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I disagree. The answer really is in education not segregation.

There was a time when someone who was HIV positive was shunned and even banned from attending school in the US. Education is what turned that around. If the money was spent on educating students on why it is wrong to discriminate against homosexuals, you would be better served. Once educated this "kids" remain so educated into adulthood. By segregating them you are just singling them out for further discrimination, in my opinion.

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Thats why i think this is wrong. They should go to real school like everyone else. They are segregating themselves by going to this schoola nd are just gonna get bugged even more about it. Know what i mean? Its hard to explain what i am thinking.

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i agree with what you all are saying being bi i feel that this school could be helpful (especially hey did you say new york come on people think) especially if they live in a dangerous area. but i'm a woman and i think it's more acceptable being a fem bi person then a dyke or gay guy. i do believe that they should educate, but if they're parents are like that and if they are stubborn then the education might just be wasted. and if they live in an area where it's dangerous to just come out and your school is trying to educate the offenders, but it's a long process we know and you are still getting cut up, raped, and beat up/down then is it really helping you.

i used to live on the south side of chi town (chicago). and i have seen females faces cut up, cuz they looked at another woman's man. i have seen people gunned down in my playground, for i don't know the real reason. i have seen people being mugged and raped and i had to turn my back and keep walking til i got to a safe area where i could help. now let me tell you this if i had told them i was gay and i was a guy do you seriously think a class room is gonna help. i can tell you that answer now ---no. they will scuf at the idea and say what they have to to get the teacher to let them leave then they will beat me up for putting them through that. i don't know if the school is a good idea, but i do know it's not really segreating... it's kinda if you want to go to that school then you can. segragating is you have to go to that school. you can't attend the other school. this is if you want to go then you can. i'm sure if you were straight then you could go, sure you would have to defend your sexuality,but hell it's closer to where you live and you get an extra hour of sleep.

and by the way that thing about the teachers is total bs. do you seriously think they need gay teachers to teach gay student? that's saying a retarded teacher can only teach retarded students. if so then you need to be educated also. teacher love to teach. and not all teachers mind teaching a class to let's say gay people or special students. i want to become a teacher and i can't teach a group of special students ( my past is horrible). it depends on the the teacher and teachers are in high demand and there are a lot of teachers so trust me about i'll say 50% of teachers in schools today (maybe not that much) are gay, bi, or bi curious or don't call themselves those words but would do it with the same sex. but that's a differ topic.

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No. I am pretty sure they will not allow a heterosexual student to attend this school. Just like boys can't go to an all girls school and girls can't go to an all boys school.

So, now what you are doing is giving them an easy target. They will know that any student attending this school is gay so I could see people waiting to follow kids home from the school to beat them up and taunt them.

I think education has to start at the very young grades. I do think it makes a difference. While we still have prejudice to deal with in this country, it certainly isn't as prevalent as it was in the 50's or 60's. I think much of this is because of what children learn in school not what they have learned in their homes. I say this because, although my son learned in my home not to be prejudiced, I certainly didn't learn it in my home where my parents were and still are openly prejudiced. So, where did I learn it? By attending school in an environment where kids of all cultures and races attended and by being taught as well as witnessing that I wasn't better than anyone simply because of my race. I think this is something that needs to happen with homosexuality as well. It needs to start very young though and I am not sure how much parents want this taught to their children who are too young to understand about sex regardless of preference. So that would be one obstacle.

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i do believe it could be a good and a bad idea. if you were to go to a school especially for gays then some one that is predjudice to the point of stupidity could easily follow one or a few of these students home and mug/taught/assault them.

i would have to say: what you learn as a child or adolecent is crucial to how you live your life as an adult. going to a school that encourages something that has been labled taboo by America's standards is like hiding in yourself in something you may find safe. by going to that school and not a public one without that preferance, you can't ready yourself for what others may think of you later in life when you don't have protection in numberes, if you will.

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I can't see that in the long term this can be of benefit to the students attending this school!
Maybe in the short term, they are mixing with like minded people, but years down the line when they are handing over their CV of which school attended, I'm sure they are leaving themselves open to prejudices and being left out from job offers!

There are other worrying factors to attending a school like this, and I would imagine that bullying, both from within the school, and from out of the school would be quite high!

Most schools have a high number of gays within them, but handled correctly, there shouldn't be a problem. My Son has both heterosexual and gay friends, and the school that he attended, everybody accepted gay students to have the same rights.