I read the article A Separate Peace? by Kayla Webley in the week of October 25 issue of times magazine. This article talks about the idea of giving gsblt (gay,straight,bi-sexual,lesbian,transgender) a safe learning environment where a large majority of people are different and they aren't afraid to show it .This article it talks about how there is a school in Milwaukee that a lot of bullied kids around the nation are transferring too from their home school because they are different but a large majority of these kids are gsblt .The author gives examples for both sides on whether or not these schools are a good idea. The parents of these bullied students of course don’t want to send them back to the place where they get hurt a daily basis.so the mother of a child who was being bullied founded the alliance school. But is this school a good idea? Sooner or later they are going to have to face the world and be judged for being different. That is one argument given by the parents and people who would have to pay since it is a charter school. There is a large ratio of kids being bullied in schools across the nation and is putting the kids in a different school the best idea or are they just running away and letting the bullies win.
When i read this article i was trying to stay unbiased and look at the idea from everyone's perspective and not just of a student who was bullied most of their high school life. When i first started reading I thought why should this group get their own school what makes them so special. But then I remembered being bullied it was horrible I don't know if i would have stayed at my school if there had been an alternative. I think most people at some point in their high school career get bullied for one thing or another. I don't think the best idea is to lock away all the kids that get bullied. I think a better option would be to teach that earlier on in life that it is okay to be different. But until schools and the communities can achieve this goal of using the golden rule treat everyone the way you want to be treated .This school is a good idea because it gives these students a safe place to learn and grow as a person and be able to better handle to bullying when they leave high school. One thing I thought was interesting was how at the very end of the article we take a look a gay boy named Dylan’s life and how now although he is being home schooled he attends dances with his boyfriend where he say the parents rather than other students are the trash talkers "it seems like my generation is getting over it”. I agree with this I think as new generation are born and come to the age of schooling that they are more open to gslbt I think this is because the older generation’s ways are becoming old school as they age and retire. I just hope these ideas mature and further with incoming students. 
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