Recently, in Chicago there has been talk about opening a Gay- Friendly high school. But there has been lots of questioning about it. With opening this school, it brings up the idea of having gays segregated from teens who are straight. I am not sure if this is the totally right way to stop all the problems that teens who are gay are facing today. For example, bullying, suicide, dropping out of high school, and living in fear everyday are just some of the many different kinds.Personally, I do not think that putting them into a separate school will put an end to all of these problems, I just think it is a way to avoid them for sometime. It also puts a label on them and creates them different from others when our goal should be not to have labels on anyone and be accepting of everyone. But this debate can also go both ways. Some people could be all for it. It can be considered a safe and accepting place to either send themselves or a child where they know they can be themselves and not have to live in fear or worry for at least six hours of their day five days a week.But, once it is time for college then are they all going to be able to handle going back to that so called "normal school" and deal with people who are different than them? It is important to be faced with obstacles in life and gain the strength to overcome them, not to run away and avoid them. It is also important to accept yourself for who you are before anyone else can and be proud of it. In this video below is a news segment on the gay-friendly school where you can find out more information about it and peoples opinions. Feel free to share your opinion as well!
This video is very shocking for me personally! I never imagined that certain states would go so far into creating specific high schools for homosexual students. In one way I can understand their motive behind it. They want homosexuals to find a source of comfort in school rather than being tormented each and every day for their sexuality. Suicide rates are very high due to gay students being bullied and harassed for their way of life.I believe they have good intentions behind creating this school, but I question if these students would really benefit from it. Like you stated, when these students go off into college and the real world, how are they suppose to act when they have been secluded from the rest of the world for 4 years. This video really makes you think. Great choice Justine!
On its face value, I find this new concept of opening a“Gay- Friendly” high school to be such a sad statement on our society today.Have we not learned anything from Martin Luther King’s message of tolerance and peace? I wonder what he would think of our world decades after his famous “I Have a Dream”speech? Given we are now thinking of segregating gay people in order to protect them and educate them in a safe location, the human race really hasn't made the progress Martin Luther King Jr. was envisioning. Haven’t we all attended Anti-Bullying assemblies and learned about acceptance and tolerance? I agree with the young man in the video when he suggested that maybe the entire “gay” school would then become a target. But we also have to consider the high rate of suicide among gay high school students and address it somehow. I am just not sure if a high school to segregate gay students from the rest of the student population is the answer.
This video is very shocking for me personally! I never imagined that certain states would go so far into creating specific high schools for homosexual students. In one way I can understand their motive behind it. They want homosexuals to find a source of comfort in school rather than being tormented each and every day for their sexuality. Suicide rates are very high due to gay students being bullied and harassed for their way of life.I believe they have good intentions behind creating this school, but I question if these students would really benefit from it. Like you stated, when these students go off into college and the real world, how are they suppose to act when they have been secluded from the rest of the world for 4 years. This video really makes you think. Great choice Justine!
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ReplyDeleteOn its face value, I find this new concept of opening a“Gay- Friendly” high school to be such a sad statement on our society today.Have we not learned anything from Martin Luther King’s message of tolerance and peace? I wonder what he would think of our world decades after his famous “I Have a Dream”speech? Given we are now thinking of segregating gay people in order to protect them and educate them in a safe location, the human race really hasn't made the progress Martin Luther King Jr. was envisioning. Haven’t we all attended Anti-Bullying assemblies and learned about acceptance and tolerance? I agree with the
ReplyDeleteyoung man in the video when he suggested that maybe the entire “gay” school would then become a target. But we also have to consider the high rate of suicide among gay high school students and address it somehow. I am just not sure if a high school
to segregate gay students from the rest of the student population is the answer.