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I went to single sex school K-8. I am sending my daughter to single sex school as well. I believe they are a good idea for both sexes, however, they are not without downsides. Sooner or later the two have to learn to work together and inter- relate. Ideally this would happen much earlier than when one gets their first job.
A good compromise might be single sex K-8 and then co-ed high school (as I did), particularly for kids with no opposite sex siblings. I had no brothers but fortunately I did have some male cousins with whom I got to spent a fair amount of time growing up.
There are lots of single sex private schools where I live, moreso than in most places in the USA. Still many kids by the time they get to be HS age want to go to a co-ed school (surprise surprise). They don't like being isolated by sex. Even though we have single sex high schools, they aren't very popular.
Another idea to explore might be having some or most of the classes single sex but the overall campus co-ed with some shared activities and projects.
Segregation bothers me on a gut level. It doesn't have a good track record racially or by sex if you look at some Islamic societies where near absolute sex segregation is practiced. Still, it is difficult to overlook the documented educational advantages to kids in our own society. It seems some kind of compromise could be devised.
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"A good compromise might be single sex K-8 and then co-ed high school (as I did), particularly for kids with no opposite sex siblings."
I would propose that single sex classes continue to be offered as an option for the more challenged students in math for girls and reading/language arts for boys because there continues to be differences in aptitude for each in those areas. But generally, I would agree that grades 9-12, or at least 10-12 should be predominantly coed.
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by Anonymous User on Wednesday April 02, @08:32PM EST (#5)
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Frank h: generally, I would agree that
grades 9-12, or at least 10-12 should be predominantly coed.
Since sex differences increase at puberty there would be more justification for separating the students after than before, surely?
-sd.
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by Anonymous User on Sunday May 25, @10:50AM EST (#6)
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I don't agree... Girls have the right to remedial math and science classes, as everyone knows they're usually lacking in those skills due to heredity - but they shouldn't be allowed to slow down the boys, so to speak, via coed classes. This is our future we're talking about... Wake up! let's be realistic....
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If boys come to have their own classes, they should very often be taught by men. I attended an all-boys high school taught by men, and it was a great experience.
Hopefully, there will be all-boy classes, taught by men, on hate movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. Then males will be able to learn from an early age about the vicious, anti-male sexism that has been fundamental to feminism from the start. The boys can also learn techniques to defend themselves and support each other, when they are attacked by misandry outside of school.
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The problem with the public school system is that it's public; as a result, the parents and kids are pretty much out of the loop regarding 90+% of decisions on what's best.
Since they're not saving the average parent any money, the best solution would be to lose them completely; otherwise, the "separate but equal" thing will never fly regardless of how well it works, as long as it's for the betterment of persons of the male gender-- women will ALWAYS want "in," even while jealously guarding the single-gender nature of schools like Wellsley and Radcliffe.
Likewise, why are teachers and so-called "education experts" so so unsure of their abilities, that they need to enforce their acceptance at the point of a gun?
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