If you worked at McDonalds and you were the grill monitor would you expect a break room completely separate from the drive thru window operator? I think that normal folks would be alright sharing a room with one another. So why is it that the powers that be have created a school in New York for gay, bisexual, and transgender students?
I have to say that I had a little more faith in our system than that. To completely disregard the root of the problem and just apply a Band-Aid is not how civil human beings work. The Harvey Milk Academy was started with 3.2 million dollars of New York tax payer’s money. Money that could have supplied more books, an interesting field trip, or modernizing campuses for students to benefit from. Instead it is used to build more barriers for generations to have to solve further down the road when the problem persists, and it will persist.
I had a couple of gay friends in high school and they were made fun of for being openly gay and I was even made fun for fraternizing with them, but not to the point where they felt their lives were in danger or that their grades suffered. I am not using my narrow personal experience for a brash rationalization; I am just stating what I have witnessed first hand. I do understand that teens around the country are threatened, sometimes with lethal injury, due to their sexual preference. I am not, by any means, trivializing the fact that some kid’s lives are more of an uphill battle than others, but I am trying to get across that the antagonistic children who are threatening these “different” kids are the ones who should be penned up in their own school. It is these intolerant ones who should be watched because they are obviously more prone to act violently. I have never heard of a case of a gay person beating up a straight person just because they were straight, so obviously it is not the gay kids who are the problem.

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