Groundbreaking High School for LGBT Students to Open

[traci_k]

Groundbreaking High School for LGBT Students to Open

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/groundbreaking-high-school-for-lgbt-students-to-171414115.html

AP Via Yahoo.News
January 5, 2016


A first-of-its-kind private school in Georgia aimed at attracting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth and teachers is being established in Atlanta for students who feel bullied or not accepted in traditional schools.

Pride School Atlanta is a k-12 institution designed to be an alternative for LGBT students, though the school is open to any student who believes they're not getting the support they need for "being different," says Pride School founder Christian Zsilavetz.
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I know critics are going to complain about the $13,000 tuition, but that's not excessive for High School these days. But perhaps if the model works, Public Schools may try introducing a similar concept - though that would probably be derided as separate but equal. Still if it gets kids educated and saves lives from suicide from bullying. Perhaps it could be an option. JMHO

[Deborah]

Hey, finally a good story from my state.  Maybe one day the goodness will expand beyond the Atlanta city limits.


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[Deborah]

the comments on the article are typical but one thing stands out.  That is the number of people saying that bullying in school is expected and good because it prepares children for life.

I feel like I have entered the Twilight Zone.


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[Laura_Squirrel]

the comments on the article are typical but one thing stands out.  That is the number of people saying that bullying in school is expected and good because it prepares children for life.

Yeah...it's....real good.

Sure.....

Nothing made my day brighter than being called a "->-bleeped-<-", having to fight people in an always unfair fight because they all thought that I was gay. Things getting so bad that I couldn't go for a walk or bike ride after school because the same bullies lived in the neighborhood. Yeah...that's just peachy keen.

And dealing with an alcoholic father that was a complete jerk and those oh, so lovely gender issues that I "chose" to burden myself with?

Well, that was just the cherry on my sundae of total hell.

Yep. That sure prepared me for a happy and healthy life growing up.

[Asche]

the comments on the article are typical

ZOMG, you READ THE COMMENTS!!  That's as bad as looking directly at Medusa's face!
Rule #1 of the WWW:  NEVER READ THE COMMENTS.  (They'll scar you for life.)

...  people saying that bullying in school is expected and good because it prepares children for life.

They don't say what kind of life.  Maybe as a concentration camp guard.  Or a life of brutalizing people (blacks, gays, wimps, etc.)

FWIW, I experienced more actual bullying at home than at school (at school it was mostly verbal harrassment and rejection, plus harrassment from the teachers), but I got pretty much the same answer from my parents when I complained.

I feel like I have entered the Twilight Zone.

Just reading at your summary of the comments takes me back to my nightmare of a childhood.  I left the South at 18, never to return, but it sounds like it hasn't changed all that much.

[Deborah]

I was lucky and wasn't bullied at all in high school.  But I was bullied in Jr. High and the only thing that prepared me for was going to high school and deciding I wouldn't be bullied even if I had to die in the process.

It also helped that I went to a private school myself so the most undesirable elements (rednecks) were filtered out.


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