Chicago to Approve Public High School for Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Teens

[Crazy Horse]

This is just taking Political Correctness further than ever imagined.

A damn isn't this segregating the students................wasn't desegregation fought hard for??

If this is being done because people can't handle being picked on and drop out of school...........that;s bullshit. Put the damn people in a closed enviroment...............can't wait for them to hit the ground running in the real world.  They will become just another drain on the taxpayers............like most of the people who got picked on in HS and brushed it off and continued on.

[Chris_]

This is just taking Political Correctness further than ever imagined.

A damn isn't this segregating the students................wasn't desegregation fought hard for??

If this is being done because people can't handle being picked on and drop out of school...........that;s bullshit. Put the damn people in a closed enviroment...............can't wait for them to hit the ground running in the real world.  :rotf: They will become just another drain on the taxpayers............like most of the people who got picked on in HS and brushed it off and continued on.

Except those of us who got wealthy and got even.

Dumb jocks are just that -- easily disposed of and working at the Wawa while regaling their friends and customers about that TD or HR they got in their Junior Year, while pausing to say "OK, $10 on Pump #4" -- a la Al Bundy.

Fun all the way around.

[JohnnyReb]

I got the perfect school mascot. It has everything, phallic/vagina symbol, fruits/nuts.

"THE BANANNA SPLITS"

Seriously now, wouldn't this just be a magnet school? You know, the place for all the perverts to hunt and for thugsters to gather and beat up on all the queers.

[Jim]

Yep.  If someone else had wanted to segregate them, they would've cried bloody murder.  Ah, but it's quite alright for them to segregate themselves.  Makes perfect sense.     And, of course, it would be wrong if someone wanted to form a "straights only" school.

Hey, didn't they have a school like this in NYC that failed not too long ago?

I'm sure that they'll be separate but equal....

[Lanie]

I see nobody in this thread actually got "picked on". The type of "picked on" that homosexuals and those even accused of homosexuals actually was about following people around, harressing them, spitting on them, threatening to beat them up, hitting them, etc. If it happened to adults, the law would call it haressment, physical assault, etc. If the adults aren't required to get a thicker skin, why should the kids?

But maybe a seperate school isn't the answer. I've been thinking they seriously should bring back the paddle. Next time a kid is caught haressing another kid for whatever reason (homosexuality, weight, class, etc), they should be sent to the principal's office to get whipped.  Then maybe they'd grow up into people who think haressment and physical assault is a big deal (no matter who it happens to). 

[Jim]

I see nobody in this thread actually got "picked on". The type of "picked on" that homosexuals and those even accused of homosexuals actually was about following people around, harressing them, spitting on them, threatening to beat them up, hitting them, etc. If it happened to adults, the law would call it haressment, physical assault, etc. If the adults aren't required to get a thicker skin, why should the kids?

But maybe a seperate school isn't the answer. I've been thinking they seriously should bring back the paddle. Next time a kid is caught haressing another kid for whatever reason (homosexuality, weight, class, etc), they should be sent to the principal's office to get whipped.  Then maybe they'd grow up into people who think haressment and physical assault is a big deal (no matter who it happens to). 

When they wanted to keep races in separate schools so they wouldn't get "picked on" the courts said it was illegal.  Now if you want to turn back the clock all the way then fine, otherwise this is total bullshit.

[Lanie]

When they wanted to keep races in separate schools so they wouldn't get "picked on" the courts said it was illegal.  Now if you want to turn back the clock all the way then fine, otherwise this is total bullshit.

I think you're right.

But seriously, the schools need to start disciplining more on bullying. Involve more counselors. I'm sorry, but they don't do nearly what they should because they don't think it's a big deal for kids to pick on each other. Unless you live every day sick to your stomache because you fear for your safety if you go to school, you really don't have an understanding of the situation.

[Jim]

I think you're right.

But seriously, the schools need to start disciplining more on bullying. Involve more counselors. I'm sorry, but they don't do nearly what they should because they don't think it's a big deal for kids to pick on each other. Unless you live every day sick to your stomache because you fear for your safety if you go to school, you really don't have an understanding of the situation.

Councilors ?  No thanks.  Harsh punishment ?  Sure thing.  Make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard.  A month of suspension for the first offense (high school level) and the door permanently if they didn't learn their lesson the first time.  And its as much the parent(s) to do the learning as the kid.

If kids are feeling that way then their parents need to get them professional help.

[Lanie]

Councilors ?  No thanks.  Harsh punishment ?  Sure thing.  Make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard.  A month of suspension for the first offense (high school level) and the door permanently if they didn't learn their lesson the first time.  And its as much the parent(s) to do the learning as the kid.

If kids are feeling that way then their parents need to get them professional help.

Guidance counselors and peer helpers are good for helping the bully and the people being bullied work out the problem. As crappy as the behavior of the bully is, there often is a reason that might be able to be worked out.

[Jim]

Guidance counselors and peer helpers are good for helping the bully and the people being bullied work out the problem. As crappy as the behavior of the bully is, there often is a reason that might be able to be worked out.

There are ample counselors.  Let the idiot cool their jets for a month, probably have to repeat the grade and that ought to get their attention.

[Crazy Horse]

Guidance counselors and peer helpers are good for helping the bully and the people being bullied work out the problem. As crappy as the behavior of the bully is, there often is a reason that might be able to be worked out.

The many counselors that already infect the public school system is half the damn problem. What is counseliing people going to do??? Really what?

The job of the damn Guidance Counselor is to guide people in school to what they should do. They aren't damn thearpist...........they aren't mediators. They guide a person on a path to follow after High School.

It seems you were picked on in school and never got over the jokes, taunting....etc.

I was picked on and taunted..................just like a duck letting the water roll off it's back, that's the way I handled it.

You really seem to have issues on this subject......................always remember that there are consequences to ones actions. If people don't like gays for what ever reason there will be consequences...........me personally I believe that anyone can be who they want to be regardless. However if that person wants to fluant it, then they will pay the consequence of their actions.............either good or bad. ya can't have it only one way.

This whole meme on things being unfair..................well guess what..................LIFE'S not fair and people that want it one way will be treated worse than people who see things as they are.

The whole idea of having a segregated school will put these children way behind the eightball of life..............way behind it. If tthey can't deal with High School hijinks and such...............How the hell will they deal with real life and all that comes with real life.

[Chris_]

Guidance counselors?   

They're about as effective as UN "peace-keepers".  All talk, no substance.

[Crazy Horse]

Guidance counselors?   

They're about as effective as UN "peace-keepers".  All talk, no substance.

Exactly..................yet they do their job in guiding.....................sometimes.

No way in hell are the Psycologist

[Atomic Lib Smasher]

I see nobody in this thread actually got "picked on". The type of "picked on" that homosexuals and those even accused of homosexuals actually was about following people around, harressing them, spitting on them, threatening to beat them up, hitting them, etc. If it happened to adults, the law would call it haressment, physical assault, etc. If the adults aren't required to get a thicker skin, why should the kids?

But maybe a seperate school isn't the answer. I've been thinking they seriously should bring back the paddle. Next time a kid is caught haressing another kid for whatever reason (homosexuality, weight, class, etc), they should be sent to the principal's office to get whipped.  Then maybe they'd grow up into people who think haressment and physical assault is a big deal (no matter who it happens to). 

Uh huh. Bring back paddles? Didn't you libs rally against that anyways 20 years ago? Besides... with some of the ****ed up kids turning out nowadays thanks to the leftists educations system, some of them might like it.. especially the gay ones you libs are planning to segregate from normals schools (where's the "diversity" there?)

Besides, if ya get made fun of or bullied, just do what I did when I was in school.... take it to the playground.

[Chris_]

...If it happened to adults, the law would call it haressment, physical assault, etc. If the adults aren't required to get a thicker skin, why should the kids? ...

Stupid comparison.

Penalties for adults and children are not the same.  I shouldn't have to explain why.   

[Lanie]

The many counselors that already infect the public school system is half the damn problem. What is counseliing people going to do??? Really what?

The job of the damn Guidance Counselor is to guide people in school to what they should do. They aren't damn thearpist...........they aren't mediators. They guide a person on a path to follow after High School.

It seems you were picked on in school and never got over the jokes, taunting....etc.

I was picked on and taunted..................just like a duck letting the water roll off it's back, that's the way I handled it.

You really seem to have issues on this subject......................always remember that there are consequences to ones actions. If people don't like gays for what ever reason there will be consequences...........me personally I believe that anyone can be who they want to be regardless. However if that person wants to fluant it, then they will pay the consequence of their actions.............either good or bad. ya can't have it only one way.

This whole meme on things being unfair..................well guess what..................LIFE'S not fair and people that want it one way will be treated worse than people who see things as they are.

The whole idea of having a segregated school will put these children way behind the eightball of life..............way behind it. If tthey can't deal with High School hijinks and such...............How the hell will they deal with real life and all that comes with real life.

I wasn't just teased. I had people occasionally threatening to kick my ass. Either I was staring too much, supposedly spoke behind one's back, etc. Finally, in high school, somebody told me they thought I was stuck up because I was quiet. So I ended up opening up to some of the popular people and living happily ever after. Meanwhile, there were at least two people in which I tried hitting them or hitting them back. It didn't solve the problem. One of them told me the problem (staring at her), so I made an effort not to stare at her. Two I spoke it out with in the guidance office and guess what? IT WORKED. I didn't end up in a fight. I still got taunted and teased by one of them, but at least I wasn't worrying about getting hurt anymore.

That's what some of you dumbasses don't appear to get. Better yet, some of you all seem to appear to think some kids deserve it for being different or in most cases RUMORED to be different. That's disgusting.

[Lanie]

Stupid comparison.

Penalties for adults and children are not the same.  I shouldn't have to explain why.   

I won't say that children should get the same penalty as adults. I'm a long opponent of trying kids as adults for any crime. However, I get a little bit tired of people passing off haressment, spitting on people, biting, hitting, and so forth as simply teasing kids or kids being kids. It's the fact that bullying isn't taken seriously as to why people are getting pissed off about it to want to segregate or do worse things to begin with.

[Crazy Horse]

I wasn't just teased. I had people occasionally threatening to kick my ass. Either I was staring too much, supposedly spoke behind one's back, etc. Finally, in high school, somebody told me they thought I was stuck up because I was quiet. So I ended up opening up to some of the popular people and living happily ever after. Meanwhile, there were at least two people in which I tried hitting them or hitting them back. It didn't solve the problem. One of them told me the problem (staring at her), so I made an effort not to stare at her. Two I spoke it out with in the guidance office and guess what? IT WORKED. I didn't end up in a fight. I still got taunted and teased by one of them, but at least I wasn't worrying about getting hurt anymore.

That's what some of you dumbasses don't appear to get. Better yet, some of you all seem to appear to think some kids deserve it for being different or in most cases RUMORED to be different. That's disgusting.

Boo ****ing hoo. You had people occasionally threatening to kick your dumbass. Judging by your response it does seem deserved.

You should have just gotten your ass kicked and maybe learned something from it..................instead it seems you went running to a school official whining about someone was going to kick your ass...........That's probably the reason that a person kept right on tuanting you.

[Lanie]

Boo ****ing hoo. You had people occasionally threatening to kick your dumbass. Judging by your response it does seem deserved.

You should have just gotten your ass kicked and maybe learned something from it..................instead it seems you went running to a school official whining about someone was going to kick your ass...........That's probably the reason that a person kept right on tuanting you.

Why would I have to complain about somebody threatening me when they did it out for everybody to see? Like most kids, I didn't want to tattle. I didn't even like the idea of using a guidance counselor until I was assured it wouldn't go to the principal's office.

As for the rest, I really hope you're not in the school system.  I think you'd be very bad for it. Honestly.

[Lanie]

Honest questions, is bullying really even a serious issue?   
Harassment reaching the point of spitting, biting, and hitting should of course be taken up by the police.

Yes, bullying is a very serious issue. I doubt gays are the only people dropping out of school over it. Truth is no kid should be scared to go to school and the problem sure shouldn't persist for years like it does for some kids. As for the second line, it's all been called bullying over the years.  Different schools handle things in different ways, but it often doesn't get handled until a two sided fight breaks out. Then of course both kids are in trouble. I do think it's still bullying before it gets to the second line though. Name calling is one thing, but when kids start following other kids, getting in their faces, and threatening them, it's literally haressment.  There actually is a difference between saying things to another kid to hurt their feelings and pushing them to the point that they don't want to come to school.

[Thor]

The problem with regular public schools (disregarding the fact that they are usually run by poor educators), is the fact that there is a "non-violence" policy to protect the wimps and whiners. In my day, we either kicked someone's ass or got our asses kicked. Either way, disputes were usually resolved. Male students have been virtually emasculated within our liberal society & school systems. Hell, a guy could have been a fag, but one way or another, he would get his ass kicked or kick someone's ass. Oh yeah, and school shootings were unheard of back then and most of us had ready access to guns.

Then we have the parents, who are afraid to spank their children because that child is taught early in school to call 9-1-1 if a parent should discipline a child. ****in' Libtards are ruining Americans. Bunch of pussies.......

[Crazy Horse]

The problem with regular public schools (disregarding the fact that they are usually run by poor educators), is the fact that there is a "non-violence" policy to protect the wimps and whiners. In my day, we either kicked someone's ass or got our asses kicked. Either way, disputes were usually resolved. Male students have been virtually emasculated within our liberal society & school systems. Hell, a guy could have been a fag, but one way or another, he would get his ass kicked or kick someone's ass. Oh yeah, and school shootings were unheard of back then and most of us had ready access to guns.

Then we have the parents, who are afraid to spank their children because that child is taught early in school to call 9-1-1 if a parent should discipline a child. ****in' Libtards are ruining Americans. Bunch of pussies.......

Exactly.......................

[Lanie]

The problem with regular public schools (disregarding the fact that they are usually run by poor educators), is the fact that there is a "non-violence" policy to protect the wimps and whiners. In my day, we either kicked someone's ass or got our asses kicked. Either way, disputes were usually resolved. Male students have been virtually emasculated within our liberal society & school systems. Hell, a guy could have been a fag, but one way or another, he would get his ass kicked or kick someone's ass. Oh yeah, and school shootings were unheard of back then and most of us had ready access to guns.

Then we have the parents, who are afraid to spank their children because that child is taught early in school to call 9-1-1 if a parent should discipline a child. ****in' Libtards are ruining Americans. Bunch of pussies.......

There's always been a non-violence policy in schools. It's just now they want to treat kids like they're adults and call the damn police. Consequently, you can't hit the bully in school now without a major consequence. Not to mention the schools think suspension is the answer to everything. Got in a fight? Suspension. Late for class again? Suspension. It's ridiculous. They took paddling out of schools because some teachers used to hit the smallest kid with something the size of a chopping board. They can't figure out a middle ground. But what difference does it make? The parents won't support the teachers when they discipline (any type of discipline). Many of them are so convinced that their kid does no wrong and/or that teachers are too stupid to know what they're talking about that discipline is pointless (so obviously, the parents would not discipline their kids when told their kids were behaving badly in school most of the time).

Now, that was a rant. lol.

[Lacarnut]

Boo freaking hoo. I was picked on for being small.  You gonna open a special school for short people?  How about ugly people?  Nerds?  Awkward?  Drama folk (Best Actor of the year, 1976, Thankyouverymuch)?  Band Nerds?

Why don't MY people get special protection?  Give the small/nerd/artist folk a ******' tazer and let them zap Brad Rimshot on a regular basis.  I mean, you believe in fairness, right?

Same here. I was very skinny in school and got picked on all the time. I got in a lot of fights with kids bigger than me; won more than I lost. I learned that if you stand up, the bullies will quit picking on you especially when you kick one of their asses. If you back down everytime someone picks on you, you will have it done to you ten fold. You will go thru life as an adult with the same pathetic character flaw.

If you run your mouth off about being a fag, dress like a fag or advertise that your are a queer, then you are asking for an ass whipping. Tough sh!t

[Ptarmigan]

Isn't this segregation? Yes, I know any race and sex can be homosexual and transgender. And you do know what Andrew Cunanan came out of the closet in his teens, but was very anti-social and was a big bully. You know what he turned out to be.