Maplewood-Based GLBTQ Online High School Opens
The GLBTQ Online High School‘s Mission:
The GLBTQ Online High School will provide a safe and welcoming educational community that provides a high quality, comprehensive college-preparatory online high school experience for students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or questioning their sexual orientation or gender using the best technology and techniques of distance education.
Other online schools exist, as do bricks-and-mortar schools that serve gay students. But the Minnesota program is the first to combine the two features, according to the International Association for K-12 Online Learning.
It is the brainchild of David Glick, the first online learning coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Education…
It also removes gay students from potentially hostile school environments and places them in what he touts as a “safe and welcoming educational community.” Instead of facing bullies every day, students would be learning with other students who understand their concerns.
School is as much about social development as it is about education. Parents who home school their kids manage this, so I don’t see how this is much different. The whole reason it exists is because the social nature of high school is hostile to many queer kids.
(via Secrets of the City, whose comments you should not bother reading)
