Caption Useful Idiots (Gay High School Supporters)

Yahoo! News (Reuters Photo) ^ | 9/8/2003 | n/a

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Original caption:A group of several hundred people demonstrate in support of a new high school for lesbian and gay students in New York City, September 8, 2003. The Harvey Milk High school opened for the first day of school with close to 100 students. REUTERS/Jeff Christensen

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Caption away!

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Another pic:

[Physicist]

You know, I think as a school student, it would have been less humiliating to have been beaten by goons on the way to school than to have been applauded by a crowd of demonstrators.

[yankeedame]

Call 1-800-REN-TAMOB

[Paradox]

"Yes, we like segregation, now when can we have special schools for blacks?... Oh, we already did?"

[meg70]

What about the Transgendered being discriminated against by not having their own school?

[GovernmentShrinker]

For all the hollering by opponents and supporters of this school, I still haven't heard a peep about its academic track record (it's actually been in operation for over 20 years, and is just being expanded now). As a New York City taxpayer, that's really all I care about. I'm sure none of these kids are attending the school over the objections of any functional parents who may be involved in their lives, so as long as it doesn't infringe on parental authority, all I want to know is whether the kids are learning the 3 R's and useful trades that will keep them off the welfare rolls. I do know that at most of the "normal" high schools in NYC, students are NOT getting a decent basic education.

This school serves primarily street kids and dropouts, whose lives are already in serious disarray -- NONE of them are headed for Ozzie and Harriet lifestyles, no matter what kind of school they go to. They can do whatever they like with their lives, but the public school system should be ensuring that its students can support themselves when they reach adulthood. Does the Harvey Milk school this, or doesn't it? Enquiring taxpaying minds want to know.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Hypocrites of "tolerance" and "diversity" movement.

[kcar]

Join the Football team and learn effective tackling.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"Join the Junior NAMBLA Scouts, and learn how to match drapes to a couch; sing old Broadway show tunes around a campfire with your friends, during one of our fabulous 'weenie roasts'; and discover how to start a fire by briskly rubbing two boys together." :)

[PBRSTREETGANG]

The first day of school at Harvey Milk High was very confusing...

apparently none of the students could tell an entrance from an exit.

[jalisco555]

The real question is why these kids (or their parents) get to exercise school choice in the public schools while everyone else is required to go where they are assigned, regardless of educational quality. The way to improve public education (and the school environment) is to give all kids the opportunity to opt out of bad schools that these kids have.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Actually, I'm not sure they can exercise a choice to go there -- though I'm sure they can exercise a choice not to. This school is one of many "alternative" schools in the NYC system, and I believe all the kids who attend have been steered there by counselors and social workers, after utterly failing to function (or attend) regular schools. It's not really the sort of school one would choose to go to, if one had other viable options. The curriculum is remedial and vocational -- it is not a college prep program.

[atomic conspiracy]

"Supporters and students of New York City's Ted Turner High School for Activist Studies cheer the arrival of their new principal, Dr. Theodore Kaczynski."