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The alternative to this curruculum is expressed by this quote from a teacher: "...it would be impossible to protect his safety, short of hiring an armed guard to escort him from class to class."

As long as it's seen as acceptable to beat, torture, and kill another human being for any reason, we'll see this kind of effort. This curriculum doesn't point to pushing of a homosexual agenda, it points to the rotting, threadbare moral fiber of this nation, where brutal murder is seen as acceptable if the vicitm "deserved" it for being different, while the teachers and administrators look the other way.

What makes him much more concerned is that he has approached teachers and administrators about the problem and, he says, "no gains have been made in eradicating these patterns of thought and behaviour." - High School Confidential

Apparently, since it's no longer socially acceptable to lynch black people, the savagery of our young people has turned to gay people.

Matthew Shephard's killer pleads guilty
Gay student beaten to death at Gallaudet
British Sailor beaten nearly to death

I don't think those inclined to kill will be much helped by sensitivity training. My main problem is that mission creep in the public schools has degraded its core responsibility. Of course schools should not tolerate bad behavior. It is a pity that expulsion is no longer a viable option absent extreme circumstances. That I think is one element leading to the downward spiral.

Contrary to popular belief, Matthew Shepard wasn't beaten to death just because he was gay. He was beaten to death by two thugs who were already on a strongarm robbery crime wave (Shepard was their second victims of the night).

From my thread Not Fit To Print? (John Leo on the Media 'Pink-Out' of Jesse Dirkhising's Killing):

The more you learn about the Matthew Shepard killing, the less it looks like a hate crime. All the evidence points to the truth being that Shepard was chosen because to rob because he could be relied upon to jump in the truck that Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were riding in.
Important to consider is that McKinney and Henderson got into a fight with a some Hispanic teens later that evening, and it was McKinney's pistol-whipping of one of them that led police investigating that assault to the pistol-whipping murder of Shepard. McKinney was not charged with a hate crime in that incident, if he was charged at all.
The idea that the killing of Shepard was some sort of 'threatening message to the community' -- which used to be the narrow criteria separating "hate crime" from run-of-the-mill "crime" -- falls apart when you examine the case. Henderson -- who confessed and implicated McKinney as the one who initiated the attack that killed Shepard -- said that McKinney whacked Shepard in the skull with his gun after Shepard was still able to read the license plate number of the truck -- as he was ordered to do by McKinney. No anti-gay slurs were reported during the attack, according to all witness accounts that I have read. The "hate crime" charge hangs on the slim thread of the killers' use of anti-gay slurs when recounting the [beating that led to the] murder to their girlfriends (both [girlfriends] were charged with being accessories after the fact and pleaded guilty to reduced charges).
The so-called "gay panic" defense that McKinney and his counsel came up with was blocked by the judge. In Wyoming, there are restrictions on diminished capacity defenses. Still, chances are the strategy probably would not have survived serious examination, considering that we now know that McKinney's insistence that Shepard had groped him was contradicted by his videotaped confession to the beating death.
It is not impossible that Shepard's killing was out of "hate," but we will never really know. That's because part of the bargain that saved Aaron McKinney from execution in that case was his agreement not to discuss the case -- a "self-imposed" gag order at the insistence of Shepard's parents and at the threat of life on Wyoming's death row. This was not just a prevention of Henderson potentially profiting from his crime, a la Mumia Abu-Jamal and John Wayne Gacy -- he can't even talk about the murder to a reporter for free.
That post-trial, post-sentencing gag order is surely a First Amendment violation, but it likely will never make it to the SCOTUS...or the front page of the NY Times, either.

1 Posted on 04/19/2001 11:35:09 PDT by L.N. Smithee
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After Shepard was killed, GLSEN posted ways by which teachers should find ways of bringing up the subject and specific ways to steer the discussion. Don't believe me? Click here.

As for your links at the bottom of your post with accounts of gay-bashing murder (which I am on long record of being disgusted by), here's equal time for those of us who know the tricks of the Gay-stapo:

Explicit Sex-Ed Backlash...IN SAN FRANCISCO?!
Hate Crime? No, FAKE Crime! Cops Say Gay Activist Scammed NJ College Into Pro-Homo Frenzy
*DR. LAURA SMEARED!* Laura-phobes Link Her To Brutal Slaying Of Gay Man, Could Halt Her Show in NYC

I expect schools to teach students that any sort of violent behavior is wrong and unacceptable (including against anyone perceived to be homosexual). That is FAR, FAR different from promoting homosexuality (a dangerous and filthy disordered inclination) to my kids.