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The well intentioned strike again!
According to the Associated Press, there are plans underway to create a charter school in Milwaukee that will focus on students who feel discriminated against or bullied.
This follows NYC opening a school where queer students can be "safe." (Shouldn't that be every school?)
I love this quote: "'I saw a lot of students who were being bullied and no one was doing anything about it,' said Tina Owen, a teacher at Milwaukee's Washington High School who will leave her job to become the lead teacher at what will be called Alliance School."
How about this: instead of creating safe harbors, why not stop the bullying and harassment?
We have changed our culture in the last generation when it comes to racism, cigarette smoking, drunk driving; but homophobia and bullying live on as a great American tradition, or at least as perceived to be an intractible and nealry inevitable phenominon.
is it beyond imagination that we can create schools in which children feel safe? I would think that would be a pre-requisite to any learning whatsoever.
The need for these safe-harbor schools is a damning indictment of, and an admission of failure by, the school systems in which they originate. | 
