Plans to set up a school for LGBT pupils have set the cat among the proverbial in Toronto.
A community forum is discussing putting forward a proposal to the Toronto District School Board to establish the city’s first and only ‘gay-centric’ school.
Organized by 20-year-old Fan Wu, now a student of University of Toronto, said there was a ‘lack of education and a need for a school that encourages critical thinking, especially in areas of gender and sexual diversity’.
The schools would be a safe space for pupils to be themselves and for teachers to come out. Critics counter that all schools should be a safe space for pupils to be themselves and for teachers to come out.
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