One of my VERY lib friends at work thought this school was "pure discrimination" and "WRONG". (her words)
What next...a school for people with green eyes? People under 5'2? The whole concept of a school for gay teenagers is NUTS.
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.
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.
how about a school just for white kids?