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
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.
So what your saying its not just for gays...just screw-ups in general? Or just gay screw-ups?