[Vision2020] Harvey Milk High School

[Ted Moffett]

Melynda:

Indeed, why all the fuss?

I could forge an answer addressing the psychology of sexuality and gender, 
maybe some fancy theory involving stereotyped rigid gender identify 
fragmentation syndrome and resultant repression hysteria; or maybe cognitive 
dissonance involving authoritarian social/religious gender/sexuality 
conformism leading to a generalized anxiety at perceived "threats," however 
distant.

But then I just found out that psychology graduates are among the worst paid 
in the USA!

And starting accountants make more than starting public school teachers.

The bean counters will win in the end!

Ted


>From: "Melynda Huskey" <mghuskey@hotmail.com>
>To: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Harvey Milk High School
>Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 14:45:04 -0700
>
>I'm having trouble understanding all the fuss about Harvey Milk High 
>School.  There are about 1200 public schools in New York City.  There are 
>performing arts public schools, science and math public schools, single-sex 
>public schools, experimental public schools, magnet schools, small cluster 
>schools within large schools, gifted and talented schools, law and public 
>service schools, Montessori and Waldorf and Classical schools, Hirschean 
>cultural literacy schools . . .
>
>and one school with one hundred students who are either glbt, or who want 
>to go to high school in a climate that is safe and supportive of glbt 
>students.
>
>NYC has the most extensive system of school choice that I know of 
>nationally.  The kids who end up at Harvey Milk are chosing to be there 
>because they can find something there that they couldn't find elsewhere, 
>just like the kids choosing the Fordham Leadership Academy for Business and 
>Technology.
>
>And I can promise you that there are more than 100 gay kids in NYC.  The 
>majority of them will choose schools for some other reason.  There will 
>still be plenty of gay kids to go around; no school will be forced to make 
>due with less than its fair share.
>
>Back when HMHS was still the Hetrick-Martin Institute, it was primarily a 
>school of last resort for kids who had experienced overwhelming 
>challenges--the kids who had been injured or emotionally harmed by 
>homophobic students or teachers, who had become homeless after parents 
>threw them out for being gay, who had been expelled for fighting back or 
>talking back.  I imagine that HMHS will serve that same population, at 
>least for a while.
>
>I'd find Sen. Diaz's concern for the segregation of gay kids a little more 
>compelling if he'd ever done anything to support the civil rights of gay 
>and lesbian people in any context whatsoever.   As it is, it looks pretty 
>disingenuous.
>
>Melynda Huskey
>
>
>
>Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children,
>Hidden excitedly, containing laughter.
>Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
>Cannot bear very much reality.
>Burnt Norton, T.S. Eliot
>
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