Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics charged that the school was using city funds to subsidize homosexuality. Officials replied that they were trying to provide an education for young people who might otherwise be denied one. The school does not seek to reinforce homosexuality, although it stresses the solidarity of minorities and the contributions of gay role models. Says A. Damien Martin, co-founder of the institute: "At first most help came from straight professionals, because the gay and lesbian community was afraid that if they reached out to the young they would be considered child molesters. The greatest fear of a gay person...
...some cases, letting students be themselves can mean letting them discover that they are straight. Says Martin: "Several young men in the school were molested by male relatives and thought they must be gay. It was apparent to us that these boys were heterosexual, but we had to let them find out for themselves...
Located in Greenwich Village, which has a large gay community, Harvey Milk has some things in common with a frontier school. It has two full-time teachers, Beth Bomze and Fred Goldhaber, and two classrooms for 40 students, only a handful of whom show up at the three-story waterfront building on a given...
Critics of Harvey Milk suggest that children with special needs, particularly homosexuals, should not be segregated but should learn to accept themselves in the context of a larger society. "Harvey Milk might be a good intermediate approach, but I'm not sure these students learn to cope in a school that is exclusively homosexual," says Susan Forman, professor of psychology at the University of South Carolina...
...program is designed to mainstream them back into society, but some kids refuse to go back to a traditional setting. They say this is the first place to tell them their career of choice isn't necessarily hairdresser." Adds Stephen Phillips, superintendent of New York City's alternative schools and programs: "If 100% of the youngsters are to get the education they are entitled to, we have to adapt to them -- go to the kids rather than expecting them to come to us. Like the addicted or the handicapped, Harvey Milk kids couldn't or wouldn't fit in with...