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I am not arguing in favor of a glbta school. I am just throwing some possible reasoning in there.

Personally, I feel just like Barbara. We need consequences for schools who allow bullying to happen. I have seen it happen so much when I was in school. I was the only out student from 92-96 in my school. I was tormented, picked on, beat up, etc. It even continued in college where I had a person threaten me with over 200 death threats and violence threats. They finally attempted to do something to me (chased me down with a knife where my door swinging is the only thing to keep it from hitting me in the back as I ran away). The school slapped them on the wrist and the local DA was a pansy and did nothing. What this did was taught me to be hard. To stand up for my rights and not take no lying down. 5 years later when a professor is the one doing the harassing, I grabed the bull by the horns and pressed charges and won, all the way to the 9th cuircut federal court. There was threat of supreme court action, but the professor passed away before i was able to stand in front of the SC protesting for my rights and for her firing.

Long story short, if we remove students from the situation instead of standing up to it, what do we teach them? NOTHING! Make those in charge who do nothing and those who are the bully get in trouble