Posted on 12/18/2008 12:37:42 PM PST by presidio9
The Milwaukee Public School System will expand the services provided by its gay-friendly high school and apparently become the nation's first school system to create a gay-friendly middle school.
At a meeting two weeks ago, a subcommittee of Milwaukee's Board of Education unanimously approved the Alliance School's proposal to serve sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. The proposal gained unanimous approval from the full board by default when the item was not pulled for further discussion or a vote at last night's meeting. Alliance School lead teacher Tina Owen said the public charter school will begin accepting new applicants eligible for middle school in the 2009-2010 school year immediately.
Milwaukee's response to gay-friendly schools has been much different from other cities'. In Chicago, community leaders' concerns about creating a gay-friendly high school stalled plans to bring such a proposal before the city's school board. In New York City, protesters greeted students of the gay-friendly Harvey Milk High School in Manhattan's East Village on its first day of classes five years ago. But in Milwaukee, the Alliance School's birth as a high school and expansion to serve middle school students passed with no real opposition. Calls from social service organizations and parents urging Owen to create the middle school more quickly are the only responses she has received from the community, Owen said.
Before helping to create the Alliance School four years ago, Owen worked in another Milwaukee high school and advised its Gay Straight Alliance club. She heard horror stories from students who were being verbally and physically harassed on a daily basis because of their sexuality or gender identification. Research conducted by the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network indicates that students across the country are experiencing the same trauma. A GLSEN study on school climate found that 86.2 percent of youth who identify themselves as other than heterosexual were verbally harassed in the past year and that 22.1 percent were also victims of physical assaults at school.
Marty Lexmond, the director of school innovation for Milwaukee Public Schools, said the need for a gay-friendly middle school is even greater today because adolescents are publicly identifying their sexuality as early as middle school. He added that he is pleased with Alliance's progress over the past four years because the school serves young people whose needs are not being met elsewhere. Lexmond believes that had many of the school's current students not attended Alliance, they would have acted out or dropped out of their old schools. Some students he came to know personally told him so.
Though Alliance is certainly a safe place for gay youth, Owen makes clear that she did not help create the school or its new middle school to benefit gay students only. "Alliance has never been exclusively a gay high school; rather, so many LGBTQ students are the ones being bullied," Owen said. "This school is for any student who wants to become a part of this safe environment."
This should prepare them for the big scary real world.
This should prepare them for the big scary real world.
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These evil SOB’s need to be stopped. Doing this kind of thing to children is unconscionable.
Shameful.
These kids are truly too young to even be sexually active, let alone know what their sexual orientation is for sure, and the school district will be reinforcing their doubts or experimentation.
They should be helping these kids avoid this lifestyle if they can.
We have truly entered a moral free zone. God help us all.
One of these days, normal people are going to get together and decide that the intentional, forced sexualization of children is beyond the pale, even for the leftist radicals who now run many of our public schools.
The Milwauke Public School (MPS) system currently has a dropout rate approaching 50%. The quality of education has long been questioned. The financial health of MPS is always precarious. I’m sure yet another worthless social experiment like this will help bring a laser-like focus to educate all the children in the district they are currently failing to educate.
gaying up america one school at a time....
They use your tax money to create an all gay school...great!...It’s still the same inept system that doesn’t teach math, American history or english anymore....
The reason they want to do this is that seperation will cause even more hatred, which will cause strife, and in turn need more intervention and so on, pure evil.
I am going to assume that this school will be discouraging its students from actually acting on any sexual impulses the might have. A male can not be gay unless he is actively having sex with another male. Same goes for a female. Children going through puberty have notoriously active imaginations and impulses. It is not uncommon for otherwise heterosexual but sexually imature humans to experience some type of homosexual fantasies) But until they start following through, they can’t be called gay, the same way that the occasional fantasy about getting rid of my wife doesn’t make me a murder. Take a bunch of akward and impressionable kids and put them in a school that encourages them to be gay and loving it, and guess what the result is going to be.
Thats how it's supposed to work.
We helped a lot of the little queers straighten out that way.
I thought segregation was evil.
It's called "Home school".
"So, thank you for coming for the interview. I'm just going over your resume here. Ah, I see you graduated from...Oh my, look at the time. Well I have a lot of other interviews to conduct, so if you'll just swish your way out, we'll call you if we need you."
Gay-friendly kindergarten is right around the corner.
Are they going to have bathroom monitors?
Why would this school discourage them from acting on their sexual impulses? Public Schools gave that up long ago. This school nurse will be handing out AZT.
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