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Look this isn't really a school, it's a program. A lot of programs have their own principles. This particular one isn't old, it has been around for a long time. They just now got their own principle as opposed to the one guy who oversees all the other ones. Every major district has speciality programs for "troubled kids" and other various special need demographics. These kids most likely switched into this program at the advice of a counselor after they were failing to survive at a regular school. Without these programs you'd see a lot more drop outs , or worse. Public Schools with taxpayer money tend to force the same curriculum on everyone, which means a lot of kids are alienated. So special need curriculums are created, and funded mainly through special grant money from various places (private, state, federal, etc.)

I do tend to think people put themselves in their own ghettos, and self segragation can be a problem, especially if they're just compensating for feeling "left out". A better method would be to fight for proper intergration, and broaden the curriculum to meet the needs of it's student bodies in a way that is inclusive and not imposed. Meaning something like the rainbow curriculum that forces a lesson plan in diversity on all students is as dangerous as any forced curriculum plan in ignorance. Anything that sweeping and broad will not meet the needs of the students. Harvey Milk wanted to be treated the same, not special, and to be recognized for what he was.

This isn't the issue for this particular school though. These kids aren't looking for a sepcial gay education. The media is just jumping all over anything homosexual related and making it sound like an entirely new school is being created when that isn't the case.