Nothing new, they already exist in Dallas, NYC, and LA (that I know of, probably more).

Sometimes you ant to fight and stand your ground, but sometimes you just want to put yourself in a place where you can just be comfortable and learn.

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I get your connection, but I think that aspects of it are flawed.

A school is not the same as a night club, a high school is supposed to be a place that is a safe environment conducive to learning and that's what these particular schools are seeking to provide students with. This isn't creating discrimination, the discrimination is already there and this an attempt to circumvent it and provide students that prior to this have been in learning environments that have not enabled them to live up to their potential and sometimes not even to live.

Unlike with racial segregation in schools this is entirely VOLUNTARY. The students that attend these schools, and the parents that send their children there are attempting to making a choice that will benefit their child in the long run and in many ways to protect them.

On average homosexual youths have the highest drop out rate and suicide rate amongst teenagers, this could potentially reduce that for some of them.

I think it would be great if we didn't have to do this, if we could safely achieve integration of gay teens in society without having to worry about their safety, but having been a gay teen in a community that was far from accepting--that had me terrified of the repercussions of being out, and was essentially an environment that I don't think I would have made it out of if I hadn't moved when I did, I think that these schools can serve as valuable resources for some students.

I understand where you're coming from in the sense that we shouldn't allow ourselves to be driven out of the mainstream--out of our schools and our jobs and our communities, but I also understand the desire to leave and to feel safe and to be tired of fighting.

I chose the college that I did because I knew that it had a vibrant queer community and that my sexual orientation was not going to be an issue in the classroom or amongst the majority of my peers and I don't begrudge youth wanting that same opportunity for their education.

Some teenagers can handle being in an environment where they're harassed constantly and still get through it, but others can't, and given that I feel all of them deserve the opportunity to make it through their education, even if it means creating a school like this that seem so strange and isolated. I wish that it didn't have to come to this, but it has and here we are attempting to create a place where kids feel safe to learn.

I guess I can kinda see where you're going with this arguement, but you need to look at everything in the long run. GLBT students dropping out because of harassment means that they don't go on to college. That means "we" are not in high places. We'll be stuck in the lower class of society. We won't be in a position to show our worth and actually DO something. Usually, people with higher authority/respect are the ones that make an impact and change people's views. And how do we do this? By earning a good education.

High school is stupid in that kids emphasize things way more than they need to be, such as being gay. High school kids fuss and make it some outrageous taboo, but once you get to college no one cares. So, let's just take care of our fellow GLBT students and help them through high school, that way they can go to college if they choose.

...There are schools for Catholics.

And, yeah, the real world isn't separated like that. But maybe some of us need the separation until we can get our feet under us.

"When the people begin to reason, all is lost" - Voltaire

Fair point.

Okay, how about gender segregated schools? You know, Presentation, Bellarmine, etc?

"When the people begin to reason, all is lost" - Voltaire

I don't consider anything to be segregation that is voluntary. When Christians send their kids to parochial school, it is because it reflects their desire to be in an environment that they find more conducive to learning (unlike public school with all that nonsense about fossils and snakes that can't talk). But no one calls that segregation.

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You seem to be a very negative person.

What would that solve? Students would still get beaten, and no one deserves that. If that was meant to be a joke, you need to work on your sense of humor and/or realize that there is no way to discern tone on the internet.