First public gay high school set for NY

[CaptainBubba]

How can they determine wether you're gay or not? Thats ridiculous. If someone who is not gay wants to go to that school then I'm positive beyond a doubt they could get in.

Personally I don't believe in public education at all. I think the government in all its beaurocratic bullshit manages to turn education into a mandatory prison sentence for minors.

However, as long as we're agreed that the gov. is in charge then you have to also adress the fact that there are "magnet schools" which are public, yet only admit children who are notably more intelligent than most. Is this also not a form of segregation? Anyone can get in if they apply themselves. As anyone can get into this new gay school if they wish to.

There is a difference between mental and physcial segregation.

The difference being that you can't mentally segregate someone from an enviroment theyd actually want to be in within the bounds of these kind of systems. If you aren't gay then why would you want to go anyway?

As far as tax dollars go, yes, I agree, it is a waste. So is public education. I don't believe the gov. should have any say in education whatsoever. There are already school clubs devoted to homosexual studies, as well as religion. This new institution is simply the next step. However, if schools were completely privatized I'd see absolutely nothing wrong with this one.

From the tax dollar sense though I'd pretty much have to agree with you on eveything since I'm a fairly stern anti-big-gov. type of guy.