First Gay High School is open in NY

At first I was like "Yes that is somewhat neat" but if anything were to display the idea of "balance" that I've been trying to tell Rob, then this is most likely it. The balance between what is right, moralistic and pricipally sound, vs. reality, practicality and common sense.

This new school is both productive and counter-productive. In someways yes, it is good because it does give a place for homosexuals to learn without the constant hassle of homophobes or other people mocking them. But if we are somewhat setting up an example, then this means that it is ok to segreate people of different cultures and lifestyles in order to protect them.

Granted this whole high school thing is voluntarily attended, but has coming out in school been so bad that it comes down to having a seperate school to protect people? Wouldn't the money be better spent putting it into resources that would help encourage tolerance than just avoiding the probelm entirely?

yes and no.

You see, the idea of balance comes it. The principle of the matter is that there is two conflicting ones. One principle of "best of intentions" and the other of "It don't matter if your black or white etc. etc. (trademark of the King of Pop). The thing the principle of the latter is often not praticed as widely as we would like to imagine therefore this is where "reality" comes into play and shows that hey....we need a school like this. That is how balance comes into play; the principle, the right thing that has to be done wasn't in terms of tolerence, so the band-aid solution was to just make a gay high-school.

Once again the entire idea of balance comes into the actual 'gay high school'. I mean there are many things that bring people together, often sometimes mroe closer than other things, but having such a thing so dramatically created as a homosexual only high school IMHO could seem like a disaster. It's not the fact that they are gay, but the fact that they are there because they are gay and the fact on how gays are being protrayed and viewed in the media.

This is part of the reality side speaking of me whereas the principle side of me would say "FOR SHAME STEPHEN, GAY PEOPLE ARE HUMAN BEINGS AND THIS DOESN'T MEAN THAT THEY'LL ALL ACT LIKE DRAMA QUEENS"...well that may be the case, but to tell the truth, I still think that in reality a school with it's student population based upon the criteria of a small thread of something like sexual preference, lends itself to possible disastourous social implications. Especially with a subjects as touchy as homosexuality.

The problem is, that having a homosexual school and out-right calling it that, might lead students to think that this school is what drives it, not as a place of academia (and safe academia I should mention). I'm not saying that it would be a topic that would be brought up ever single class or subject, the the point of reality is some people will make it such...overzealous people much like the preps or cheerleaders of yore. I understand (principle side here) that often small threads of similarities are bases for great communities or at least friendships, but reality often shows that isn't the case. A homosexual prep and a homosexual goth wouldn't start being buddy buddy for the sole fact that they share homosexuality because friendship is so much more than that.

Of course the reality side of me once again comes to show that the very same overzealous homophobic people get so bent over this one discerning factor that the fact of homosexuality and how they don't like it swallows any love they might had before or will in the future.

Well overall I think it's somewhat of a good idea because the reality is, gays are now the new nerds and are fiercly bullied. This is a type of problem that goes beyond skin color and strikes at the heart of Christian doctrine for many people and biological logic for others and until the time we are ready to deal with this problem fully and completly, then this is a good idea for the meanwhile.