The GLBTQ Online High School is real and has already started.
Their mission is to:
provide a safe and welcoming educational community that provides a high quality, comprehensive college-preparatory online high school experience for students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or questioning their sexual orientation or gender using the best technology and techniques of distance education.
My questions is... Will this work? Will this help or hinder the LGBT youth?
4 comments:
It will help some. Traditional education settings chew up too many kids and spits them out so the more alternatives we have to offer the better.
I don't know...this is like a band aid over a gunshot wound...
1.) It will force division (How will heteros learn to respect homos when they are segregated)?
2.) It won't get to the root of homophobia...
3.) Seperate but equal never works (Brown Vs. board of education anyone?)...
The difference in education pre-Brown v. Ed is that it was forced segregation for one, and the quality of the education was largely disproportional.
I eventually came around to the LGBT friendly high school in New York, because it was opened to everyone and gave all students that support there. However, this online school bit just rubs me the wrong way.
I generally am not a fan of online learning for various reasons for one.
This idea seems like one of those good intentions with horrible follow through. Rather than creating a separate institution, we should devote those resources to fixing the ones we already have.
Oh, that's not to say that it should be an ongoing process. But if your child is in danger, right now, there needs to be an alternative. I don't want to ever hear of another child hanging himself because he was bullied for being gay. Or bullied period. There has to be a safe harbor.
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