LGBT specialist school

[Jazzy]

First LGBT specialist school could open by 2018

The UK’s first lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) school could open in the next few years.

Youth charity LGBT Youth North West hope to launch the £16,000-a-year specialist school in Manchester by 2018, with a £63,000 government funded study to find out whether it’s feasible already underway.

The 60 places for pupils would also be taxpayer funded, which is similar to other dedicated schools, but LGBT Youth North West strategic director Amelia Lee thinks it will be worth it.

‘This is about saving lives,’ she said.

‘Despite the laws that claim to protect gay people from homophobic bullying, the truth is that in schools especially, bullying is still incredibly common and causes young people to feel isolated and alienated, which often leads to truanting and, in the worst-case scenarios, to suicide.’

Do you think an LGBT school is a good or bad idea and why?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

What a big fat waste of tax payers money. I thought todays society was against the segregation thing?

 

[Webster]

Do you think an LGBT school is a good or bad idea and why?

Bad idea...flat out, bad idea. Its' hard enough for LGBT students to deal with the stresses of everyday life in school but to self-segregate us into specific schools...I'm probably playing devil's advocate here, but I think back to some of the bullying I dealt with back in high school and can't help but think, "instead of creating schools specifically for LGBT students, how 'bout doing things like...oh, I don't know: strengthening anti-bullying measures, providing counseling for LGBT students, creating student alliances so that people can work together, etc.,etc.,etc..."

 

[fantanoice]

Considering LGBT students tend to get completely ignored in sex ed and such, there's a potential benefit there.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Considering LGBT students tend to get completely ignored in sex ed and such, there's a potential benefit there.

Do there parts work differently then everyone else's? I mean sex ed is not for giving sex lesson but instead to discover and learn how our bodies work. So no matter what you call yourself it is going to work the same for everyone.

 

[fantanoice]

Considering LGBT students tend to get completely ignored in sex ed and such, there's a potential benefit there.

Do there parts work differently then everyone else's? I mean sex ed is not for giving sex lesson but instead to discover and learn how our bodies work. So no matter what you call yourself it is going to work the same for everyone.

'Sex ed is not for giving a sex lesson.'
Wow, lol, yes it is, that's why they call it sex ed(ucation).

And there are definitely differences between how hetero and LGBT relationships go about having sex, and there are also different things they need to be concerned with. For instance, anal sex - possible but extremely uncommon in hetero relationships compared to MSM - requires a lot of lubrication because unlike a vaginal it the arse doesn't produce it. Also the HIV virus is 18x more likely to spread through anal than vaginal so it's important to wear condoms.

That's a pretty common example of something that's left out of the sex ed curriculum because it's not common enough in hetero relationships to talk about. Unfortunately this really screws over any gay male students because it's a common practice and this is a really important thing he should know for his health and wellbeing; if he doesn't research it for himself, then he's pretty much screwed when it comes time for him to actually partake in it.

I'll end this here but that was just one example, there are many others as well (not just relating to MSM either).

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Considering LGBT students tend to get completely ignored in sex ed and such, there's a potential benefit there.

Do there parts work differently then everyone else's? I mean sex ed is not for giving sex lesson but instead to discover and learn how our bodies work. So no matter what you call yourself it is going to work the same for everyone.

'Sex ed is not for giving a sex lesson.'
Wow, lol, yes it is, that's why they call it sex ed(ucation).

And there are definitely differences between how hetero and LGBT relationships go about having sex, and there are also different things they need to be concerned with. For instance, anal sex - possible but extremely uncommon in hetero relationships compared to MSM - requires a lot of lubrication because unlike a vaginal it the arse doesn't produce it. Also the HIV virus is 18x more likely to spread through anal than vaginal so it's important to wear condoms.

That's a pretty common example of something that's left out of the sex ed curriculum because it's not common enough in hetero relationships to talk about. Unfortunately this really screws over any gay male students because it's a common practice and this is a really important thing he should know for his health and wellbeing; if he doesn't research it for himself, then he's pretty much screwed when it comes time for him to actually partake in it.

I'll end this here but that was just one example, there are many others as well (not just relating to MSM either).

Not when I was in school. Sex ed was for teaching how the body works and the differences between male and female. It was not a place to teach sex moves. It was a place to teach how sex works and what happens after sex occurs. The rest as it should be was left up to the parents.

Your examples mean nothing since sex ed is to teach how the body works not to teach how to have sex in different positions. Or maybe it is now and parents are taken out of the picture completely these days? Just another reason to get your kid out of public schools. But if sadly that is the case there is no reason why this cannot be combined altogether in a lesson. Sex ed classes is not a good enough reason to spend hundreds of millions of dollars for a gay population that is 2 to 4 percent of the population. Besides the idea of segregating a people is just a bad idea for a whole host of reasons.