Chicago plans school for gay students

The London Telegraph ^ | October 9, 2008

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The Pride Campus of Social Justice High School would be open to all students in the city, and would probably end up being "majority straight", said Arne Duncan, the head of Chicago Public Schools.

But it would provide a supportive atmosphere for gay pupils, using prominent gays and lesbians - including James Baldwin and Gertrude Stein - in its curriculum.

Bill Greaves, the city's liason officer on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, said the school would "make sure these people are not invisible in history".

He said it was important that gay and lesbian historical figures were highlighted to give young gay people positive, successful role models.

The proposals were supported by most of the 50 Chicago residents who attended a public meeting on the city's education. They will be voted on by the Chicago board of education on October 22.

If approved, the Pride Campus would be unlikely to open until 2010 and would teach 600 students.

The scheme has already been tried elsewhere, with the Alliance High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which considers itself "gay friendly" and has 125 students.

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Comments?

[PeterFinn]

So the gay kids will be rounded up and put in a special school. Will they have to wear pink triangles, too?

[/sarc] Sorry, I just love it when the libs take a page from Hitler.

[Glock19C]

Separate but equal?

[Borges]

Pandering Identity Politics.

[A message]

Uh, instead of a football team will they play smear the queer.

[PGR88]

No doors on the bathroom stalls, please.

[Berlin_Freeper]

[84rules]

And just imagine! Gay and lesbian adults will have access to all those teenagers!

[MEGoody]

Using public money for a segregated school? I thought that was against the law.

[Dallas59]

What kind of lighting and color scheme will they use?

[sierrahome]

I hear they are very polite at lunch time, offering to push in each other’s stool.

[John Will]

I’m sure the school would have a killer theater program as well as fashion design.

[Lurker]

Just when you think the Chicago City Schools can't possibly do anything more stupid, wasteful of tax dollars, or harmful to its students they go and pull something like this.

Keep in mind that this is a school system that graduates barely over 50% of it's high school students, and most of them drop out after their Sophomore year.

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[Scythian]

And just imagine! Gay and lesbian adults will have access to all those teenagers!

Exactly why it is being created, a hunting and feeding ground no doubt.

[Albion Wilde]

By this logic, the city should also open a taxpayer-funded Western Civilization school, which would teach the accomplishments of the Judeo-Christian European-descended “community.”

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[2ndDivisionVet]

No, that would be racist...

[Boiling Pots]

Gee, a school based solely upon where one chooses to place their sexual organs!

How novel, and liberal.

[downtownconservative]

Maybe they’ll name the school for Obama.

[NewHampshireDuo]

The name Social Justice High School is enough to send shudders up the spine. Marxism through and through.