Social Justice High School

News Article:
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/oct/09/business/chi-gay-school-09oct09

Social Justice High School Website
http://sj.lvlhs.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=54003&type=d

GLBTQA want their own high school for various reasons. Some of the main reasons is violence, mistreatment from students and teachers, and absentee rates. I've always been opposed to this type of school opening. My reasoning is that if you let people have the ability to leave the regular schools and have their own school because of their social/sexual status that's not fair. It's not fair to those who leave, nor the students who'd still be attending the school.

I think GLBTQA and heterosexual students should be required to take classes the address the questions and or issues that they may have about each other. When I was in high school from 1993-1997 there were GLBTQA's that attended my school and they got along with the majority of the students. The major difference that I see now amongst GLBTQA youngsters of today in comparison to those when I was in high school is some of the outrageous behavior that SOME of them display. Displaying this type of behavior in front of SOME heterosexual high schoolers they tend to speak disrespectfully and or use violent behavior toward the GLBTQA's. Every day schools should have social time where 10 minutes is taken for all the children to interact with one another and highlight 5 kids to say a little about themselves. This isn't a lot but it may help others to see something special in them and want to befriend them.

By educating both parties about one another they can see how they have much more similarities than differences. Your sexual preference and outward display doesn't dictate who you are or what kind of person you are. However getting that point across to a kids ages 13-17 is very hard especially since they tend to judge their peers on outward appearance.