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Senator from Texas proposes Same Sex Public Schools

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  1. dc sports

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    Senator Kay Bailey Huchinson proposes a bill that will allow public same sex schools.

    Personally, I think this is a bad, bad idea. While you can point to such schools in the private sector with success, Private schools in general have a much better track record. I feel it removes students from the real world, and will make it more difficult for them to succeed when faced with diversity.

    Plus there is the discrimination issue. Any time you have more than one school, you get the question of equality in funding. I can see this being as big an issue with gender, as race.

    I'm confused about the Senator's arguement that "the nation's few single-sex public schools are being sued for not offering equal opportunity education." This sounds more like an arguement against the plan.

    Any thoughts? Anyone out there go to a same-sex school?

    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/558750

    Hutchison also proposed a plan that would allow students the option of attending single-sex schools, which she said would offer boys and girls refuge from distractions and sexual harassment. The senator said she wants to eliminate the red tape that prevents such schools because the nation's few single-sex public schools are being sued for not offering equal opportunity education.

    As an example of a recent success, Hutchison cited the Young Women's Leadership Academy in East Harlem in New York, which she said has a 95 percent attendance, almost zero dropouts and a one-year waiting list.



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  2. BrianKagy

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    This reminds me of an article posted on The Onion (http://www.theonion.com) right after Tiger Woods won the Masters. It's not in their archives and my eidetic memory is on the fritz, but the gist of the article is that the Augusta Country Club was so thrilled with Tiger's performance that they decided to set up some 'special' accomodations for him.

    Like his very own drinking fountain!

    And a special entrance, in the back of the club, for him!

    Etc etc.

    I think this is a stupid idea. Let's change gender to race and see how it sounds:

    Hutchison also proposed a plan that would allow students the option of attending single-race schools, which she said would offer blacks and whites refuge from distractions and racial harassment. The senator said she wants to eliminate the red tape that prevents such schools because the nation's few single-race public schools are being sued for not offering equal opportunity education.

    Part of growing as a person is learning and accepting that people are different. Sheltering them from that cold hard fact doesn't do a person a lot of good in the long run.

    I'd be more interested in separate schools for stupid people and intelligent people.



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  3. Rocketman95

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    OHMIGOD!!!!

    I agree with Kagy! [​IMG]

    I think a better solution is that of the charter schools. I'm not very educated on the subject, or whether or not these have been working, but they seem to be a good idea on paper.

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  4. Jeff

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    Brian and I in agreement. Someone make note of this one!

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    Sounds like a terrible idea. I spent 3+ years in a private boys-only high school and finally transferred in the middle of my junior year to a public school. I made excellent grades at the private school (I wasn't transferring for an easier curriculum) but the lack of diversity in the student body was driving me nuts. That, in my opinion, was not an atmosphere that promoted much personal growth.

    Schools are about classes and learning, yes, but during those teen years, there's a great deal of personal growth happening too in the realm of social interaction (hopefully anyway). We are not machines and our maturation as members of a society is important too.

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