Debuting the new Education category, here's a fun little item about a new high school for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students in New York.
"This school will be a model for the country and possibly the world," Principal William Salzman said in an interview at the facility that will boast a new science lab, 60 laptop and desktop computers donated by IBM, additional classrooms and a new cafeteria.I think this is a great idea! If the school works out well, maybe we can create a whole parallel society for those people. They can have their own bathrooms and water fountains, their own special sections on the bus, and their own seperate neighborhoods. It'll be fabulous.Salzman, a former Wall Street executive, was most recently assistant principal of guidance and business information technology at Brooklyn's Automotive HS.
Salzman said Harvey Milk will be an academically rigorous school that follows Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's mandatory English and math programs. It will also specialize in computer technology, arts and a culinary program.
"This is a not a touchy-feely situation," Salzman said. "We intend to have 95 percent of our students go on to college. We have a lot of talent coming into the school. We want to steer these kids in the right direction."
Update:
Via Drudge I see that blacks want their own schools, too. Gosh, they complain no matter what we do.
It really brings up the question of what life in a multicultural society can really be like.
We've got no nation as free and diverse to compare ourselves to in this respect.
Minorities reject the melting pot in favor of the cultural preservation argument - and yet how can we live pluralistically with so much separation? Do we really encourage cross-pollination of cultures and ideas if we're so worried about "preserving" our "identities" that we can't even share them?
Wow. "Diversity"'s gone so far as to turn itself completely inside out.
Yep. The problem is that the left has too much to lose to actually allow its various divided constituancies to assimilate. They swap between beating the "preserve our identity" drums and the "discrimination" drums as convenient.
Is it the *same people* on "the left" who are switching back and forth between these positions? If it's not, then it seems a bit unfair to claim that an entire group of people is being hypocritical when it's really individual members who disagree with each other.
I see this on Slashdot all the time; someone claims how hypocritical "Slashdot" is (implying that every member of Slashdot is a hypocrite) because there are people who rail against IP laws, and OTHER people who talk about how important they are. "The left" isn't a monolithic entity, any more than "libertarians" or "conservatives" are.