New York to Open First U.S. Public School for Gays

Reuters- "News" Service ^

[Barney Gumble]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A school in New York's Greenwich Village will reopen in September as America's first publicly run high school for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students, officials said on Monday.

Although The Harvey Milk School has been operating with two classrooms for 20 years, $3.2 million is being spent by the City to expand it to take 100 students. Named after a gay San Francisco politician assassinated in 1978, the school will be funded jointly by the city education department and a gay rights youth advocacy group.

"Everybody feels that it's a good idea because some of the kids who are gays and lesbians have been constantly harassed and beaten in other schools and this lets them get an education without having to worry," Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters at his daily briefing on Monday.

But the head of the New York State Conservative Party said the school was a waste of tax dollars.

"This makes absolutely no sense," Long told the New York Post newspaper. "There's no reason these children should be treated separately."

The school's first principal is William Salzman, a former Wall Street executive who has recently worked as an assistant high school principal.

Salzman was quoted in Monday's New York Post as saying, "This school will be a model for the country and possibly the world."

It will specialize in computer technology, art and culinary programs. It will also follow the education department's new mandatory English language and mathematics programs.

[Barney Gumble]

Are you kidding me? Bloomberg can't find anything better to do that do open a school for gays. Kids shouldn't be gay at 15.

What about a school for skinny, smart guys with big glasses? They get picked on. They could use their own school.

3.2 million for 100 kids! That's $32,000 / per student. Even elite expensive private schools cost about $15K/yr. And Bloomberg wonders why NYC is in budget trouble. Will Bloomberg pay for this by writing people tickets for picking their nose in public?

[bedolido]

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[Paul Atreides]

Expect more of the same. Not only are homosexuals trying to take over the education of children, but they are trying to take over churches as well. We have a lot of people who try to claim that homosexuals are just like everyone else and that they aren't trying to push their lifestyle on everyone else. By the time those people wake up to what's going on, it might just be too late.

[Imagine]

Homosexuality:

Homosexuality is deviant sexual behavior and a mental illness.

Homosexuals: 1) subject their body parts to uses nature did not intend, such activities often presenting immediate risk to the participants; 2) are prone to greater suicide, depression and other mental disorders and deficiencies than the heterosexual population at large; 3) are prone to far greater sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS, than the (normal) heterosexual population; 4) molest young people (pedophilia) at a far greater rate than heterosexuals; 5) engage in degrading sexual promiscuity, oftentimes engaging in risky sex with many partners during the same event; 6) are engaged in aggressive and widespread efforts to indoctrinate our children by introducing the homosexual lifestyle using public schools as the primary indoctrination “vehicle” and likewise, through the movie/music/TV industry, with the dual goals of gaining school-age acceptance of homosexuality and encouraging sexual activity among children, especially same-sex experimentation; 7) view most everything through a mindset heavily biased in favor of the homosexual lifestyle and culture, which renders them mostly useless when asked to opine on matters that normal heterosexuals better resolve.

The mental deficiencies described herein applying to homosexuals shall not be confused with the deficiencies associated with the left wing democrat/socialist/marxist/ feminist/environmentalist minds, etc., which have their own distinct set of mental disorders.

This doesn't even touch on what the Bible has to say about homosexuality.

[Onelifetogive]

Aside from the costs...this is EXCELLENT. A school with 100 gays in it means a regular school system with 100 less gays in it.

[CCCV]

Their Football team: The powder puff Rump Rangers...

[Uncle Miltie]

Would somebody named Brown please sue the Board of Education to throw out this "Separate but Equal" education system?

Chief Justice Earl Warren said: "We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."

[mad puppy]

This is a tax-supported recruitment center aimed DIRECTLY at the kids in NY. Call it what it is because its coming to a school near you in the near future.

[glorgau]

This will be an excellent chance to track the kids through life. Sort of like a big medical study. I'd bet that the life expectancy is radically lower than any other school.

[Argus]

What about a school for skinny, smart guys with big glasses? They get picked on. They could use their own school.

I always thought that's what the Bronx High School of Science was for.

[dennisw]

A school in New York's Greenwich Village ...............

LOL LOL LOL !!!!

[BushCountry]

But the head of the New York State Conservative Party said the school was a waste of tax dollars.

This guy asks a funny question in another article about this. The question was, "Is there a gay math?"

[Paul Atreides]

You don't think this will change the curriculum for schools with normal kids, do you?

[telebob]

Expect the law of unexpected consequences to make an appearance sooner rather than later. Of course gay teachers and administrators will gravitate to the school. I'd imagine that a litmus test is in place already.

Should be interesting to watch the snowball of sexual predator stories coming out of the illustrious hall of learning.

If nothing else, the school will no doubt have highly polished knobs.

[Paul Atreides]

The question was, "Is there a gay math?"

There must be: for homos, everything equals 69.

[Orangedog]

"They're here, they're queer, get used to it!"

Gawd, I always hated that one!

Seriously, I've been waiting and waiting and waiting for the backlash from the normal people, but it looks like we have become a nation of soccer-moms with apologists for leaders. The GOP sure as hell is no help. Just look at that embarrassing display on the House floor last week where the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee was balling like a little girl when he was called some mean names for calling the cops! For electing people like him and bloomberg, we're getting the government we deserve!

[Barney Gumble]

Haha- funny. It said that "It will specialize in computer technology, art and culinary programs."

I thought it should read "It will specialize in hair care, nail grooming, fashion, and complete male body waxing."

[taxcontrol]

I wonder how their wrestling team will do?

[kjam22]

This isn't all bad. In fact... I think I'm in favor of seperate schools for gays and lesbians.....with the agreement that once a person attends that school, there is no acceptance in a hetero school. And since these schools are available..... there is a no tollerance attitutde toward homosexuality in the hetero schools.

Honestly.... that isn't a bad solution as far as I'm concerned.

[joesnuffy]

Expect some strange things to come out of
woodwork, metalwork and leatherwork class