First GLBTQ high school opens online in Minnesota
http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/87536862.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsZ (http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/87536862.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsZ)
GREGORY A. PATTERSON
3/12/10
GLBTQ Online High School began enrolling students in January and now has six students -- none from Minnesota -- said David Glick, founder and executive director. (The "Q" stands for those who might be "questioning" their identity.)
Glick, who runs the school out of his home in St. Paul, said the dearth of students results from its midyear start. But school officials continue to receive inquiries from potential students, and Glick said he expects enrollment to increase to between 50 and 100 students by fall.
Question, is this school only for those types of students? If so, then why bother? I mean, really, if you want people to stop treating folks in that cluster of categories as freakshows don't segregate them. I know it's hard to imagine today the idea of integrated schools for "our kind", but the fact is that integration is essential for social harmony. If the parents of non-GLBTQ students don't like it there are other schools (private) that their children can attend, but so long as I'm taxed for these public schools, then I think people of my sort shouldn't be shoved aside into the equivalent "queer school."
New York and San Francisco have had real schools like this for years.