Arguementative Essay: Funding for Same-Sex Public Schools
Funding For Same-Sex Public Schools
Parents always want what’s best for their children, especially when it comes to education and furthering it. But what type of education/school is best for your child? What type of classroom setting better prepares your child for the future? After years of debate, the federal government has formally cleared the way for the funding of single-sex public schools throughout the country — a movement that supporters say will benefit poor and minority children but opponents argue is discriminatory under gender equality rules. Should the government fund same-sex public schools? Or schools for homosexuals?
America's schools have many problems, and there is no one solution. But if there is one suggestion that is likely to gain solutions, it is to allow experiments. Let's have coed schools and single-sex schools and see which works best. Most likely, one will work best for some kids, the other for other kids. In that case, society will function best if we offer both opportunities and let the students choose.
The same can be said for schools for the LGBT Community. Students who are comfortable enough with themselves to be out the closet, and want to be in a school where they don’t have to be ridiculed, teased and abused because of who they are, should have the option to go to a school that has students that identify as Gays, Lesbians, or Transgendered.
As Written by Jessica Calefati for the US News education blog, “Gay students fend off bullies in schools across the country every day. Research published recently by the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network found that 82 percent of students who identify themselves as other than heterosexual were verbally harassed at school in the past year, and other studies show gay students are more likely than their heterosexual peers to develop depression or have thoughts of suicide. Thirty-nine states lack laws that specifically protect gay students from harassment at school. In response to this
Parents always want what’s best for their children, especially when it comes to education and furthering it. But what type of education/school is best for your child? What type of classroom setting better prepares your child for the future? After years of debate, the federal government has formally cleared the way for the funding of single-sex public schools throughout the country — a movement that supporters say will benefit poor and minority children but opponents argue is discriminatory under gender equality rules. Should the government fund same-sex public schools? Or schools for homosexuals?
America's schools have many problems, and there is no one solution. But if there is one suggestion that is likely to gain solutions, it is to allow experiments. Let's have coed schools and single-sex schools and see which works best. Most likely, one will work best for some kids, the other for other kids. In that case, society will function best if we offer both opportunities and let the students choose.
The same can be said for schools for the LGBT Community. Students who are comfortable enough with themselves to be out the closet, and want to be in a school where they don’t have to be ridiculed, teased and abused because of who they are, should have the option to go to a school that has students that identify as Gays, Lesbians, or Transgendered.
As Written by Jessica Calefati for the US News education blog, “Gay students fend off bullies in schools across the country every day. Research published recently by the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network found that 82 percent of students who identify themselves as other than heterosexual were verbally harassed at school in the past year, and other studies show gay students are more likely than their heterosexual peers to develop depression or have thoughts of suicide. Thirty-nine states lack laws that specifically protect gay students from harassment at school. In response to this