Fr.Andrew

(Fr Andrew): Those of children too fearful and bullied to learn in their regular school atmosphere.

Doctor X

[Advocatus Diaboli Mode ON--Ed.]

Then should we have separate funding for schools for fat kids, geeky kids, and anyone else picked on?

[Advocatus Diaboli Mode OFF--Ed.]

However, on a Cable New channel, the host kept asking the same question but kept listing "Christian" children in the list of "those oppressed."

Never mentioned Jewish, Moslem, Atheist, Dionysian kids. . . .

--J.D.

Fr.Andrew

(Fr Andrew): I think the school under discussion welcomes those children also, but I have no problem with tax money going to see that all kids can learn in an atmosphere free from fear and bullying.

Feather

Hello, me! Only I was "lucky" and never had to file assault charges. The schools don't prepare a person for "real life" when that person is different to the point where he is no longer socially acceptable and his very existence is, at best, temporarily tolerated.

But segregating isn't the answer to such a problem.

Doctor X

You can never make everyone happy.

There will be teasing and bullying in the "gay" HS just as there is amongst members of the community now.

Perhaps if we made home school mandatory . . . then we would only have to combat sibling rivalry.

Segregation is not the answer.

This does not mean one should tolerate bullying either.

--J.D.

vixenell

Actually, there are quite a few fully publicly funded single sex schools, listed here:

http://www.singlesexschools.org

No one's protesting these.

debater10

I am hereby protesting these, as well.

vixenell

Why?

Feather

Oh, I don't know. Maybe because segregating people based purely on what they have hanging between their legs or off their chests doesn't seem like a good idea?

Boys and girls may be more likely to engage in non-traditional activities as per the website's blurb when in same-sex schools. But in the "real world" men and women don't perform their jobs separately. It would be far better to educate and overcome the biases that cause the hesitation in the first place than simply to give up in my opinion.

debater10

What Feather said, though possibly a bit more tactfully. (Just kidding). In sum, separation necessitates a disparity in quality. That is to say that it is impossible to guarantee the same quality education to all students if they are being separated. And to provide a better education to one group of people based on whether they are male or female, black or white, homo- or heterosexual, is the worst kind of segregation.