Posted on 07/06/2004 1:31:31 PM PDT by FeliciaCat
July 6, 2004 -- The Bloomberg administration might be having second thoughts about promoting an experimental high school serving gay and lesbian students. The Department of Education's budget halts the planned expansion of the controversial Harvey Milk HS in Greenwich Village, according to funding figures obtained by The Post.
Enrollment at Harvey Milk HS was scheduled to jump to 170 students in September, from 100 students this past school year, when it converted from a small program to a sanctioned, stand-alone high school.
The city put $3.2 million into renovations so the facility could accommodate the rapid two-year expansion.
But the preliminary city spending plan sets aside funding for only 100 students — the same as last year.
The school had a rocky year. Some transgender students were arrested for a string of robberies while posing as prostitutes.
The city was sued by critics for allegedly running a segregated school.
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's office insisted the budget is not an attempt to cap the school's enrollment.
"These are projections based on expected enrollment, not on any policy decision . . . not to expand the program," said Klein spokeswoman Michele McManus.
William Salzman, the founding principal of Harvey Milk, said the plan all along was to bring enrollment to 170 students in September and to 200 by the fall of 2005.
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So, let's expand the curriculum to include HOW to rob while dressed as a Ho. This way, they won't get caught.
I believe Mr.Philip Layshio will instruct.
Yes, many of NYC Public Schools are crap. Which is why blowing even 3.2 additional dollars (not that much for NYC) on this lunancy just iritates me to no end.
You have to remember that HMHS was created to provide a safe place for gays where they would not be teased and bullied. I think the obvious next special high school would be for geeks and nerds.
Unfortunately, such a school would wreck the grade curve for science and math. They would also have to teach English as a Second Language there.
Shalom.
Once they've done that they'll fill all the cracks in as well.
Well, you can't blame some of the politicians for wanting make sure that their current "special" friend gets a good education.
This school isn't designed for gay teenagers in general. It's designed for a very specific subset of that group, consisting of dropouts and almost-never-attenders who can be expected to drop out soon. It is designed to divert kids who have already started down a path to a life of prostitution and related activities, and get them into some sort of organized program where they can be educated and socialized enough to become short order cooks, low-level florist shop workers, and the like. It is a vocational school aimed at getting barely functioning young adults onto the bottom rung of functional society, instead of dropping out of functional society altogether. The official "gay" identity of the school is an effective way of getting them to show up and participate, when it's already clear that they won't show up and particpate at a regular high school. It probably serves its function reasonably well, and it doesn't cost any more per student than the abominable regular high schools in NYC.
errr What happened to reform school
Government-sponsored discrimination and promotion of what many view and have a right to view as sinful sexual activity. Shut it down, or else allow traditional religious believers access to public funds for their schools!
They still exist (though they're not called reform schools anymore), but they're generally residential facilities, and thus MUCH more expensive than a local day school, and they also generally serve only kids who've been convicted of something (usually more than once) and sent there by a court.
Actually, the government is defining students by a "sexual orientation" when they are not, as yet, legally in possession of the right to consent to sexual activity. Thereby, they are providing the orientation toward and in fact promoting illegal activity. Isn't this a racketeering case?
I thought they already had one -- Stuyvesant High School! (rimshot)
Actually, I think most of these kids are 16+.
But I don't think that a school which promotes heterosexuality as the appropriate orientation for its students is guilty of promoting illegal underage practice of that orientation. And certainly the sex-ed classes in all the regular NYC public high schools are actively endorsing underage activity, so I don't think you'll get far with singling out HMHS for criticism on that point.
It'd be comical if it weren't so very true. Sounds like the title of a skit on SNL.
high school usually starts at 9th grade = 14 year old. But school could be different. Cant we not make the age of consent 18 for deviant behavior?
I wonder if Homo High is just for homosexuals, or the entire GLBT+ range (gay, lez, bi-sexual, transgender, transsexual, cross-dressers, hermophradites, necrophiliacs, mimes, etc.) of freaks. Would be interesting to see if/how the various groups discriminated against each other. Bet they'd have a great ballet team, though (and girl's softball). And do they have unigender bathrooms, or one for each type?
how about a school just for white kids?
A magnet school based on sexual perversion to turn dropouts into solid citizens?
That makes no sense at all.
If we really want to help adolescents who are confused about their sexual identity, we should be helping them to clear it up, not adding to their confusion.
Shalom.
Schools don't promote heterosexuality as the appropriate orientation for students any more than schools promote oxygen as the appropriate gas to breathe.
You only need to spend inordinate amounts of time trying to promote something when it is obviously a bad idea.
Shalom.
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