UK: Girls' schooling 'sacrificed to help boys'

Submitted by anthony on Sat, 2008-11-15 05:59

Article here. Excerpt:

'A 40-year drift away from single sex schooling has sacrificed girls' education in order to give struggling teenage boys a "wake-up call", according to one of the country's leading girls' school heads.

Vicky Tuck, head of Cheltenham Ladies' College, who will open the annual girls' school conference in Winchester, Hampshire, on Monday, said that boys' schools are increasingly going co-educational because they are struggling to recruit and to boost exam results.

She said girls are being used to improve their male classmates' education and are losing out on a focused women-only school life.'

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Elitist bigots like this irritate me to no end, she makes an assumption that girls are suppose to help boys in the classroom? So, apparently it's not because boy's need to be taught differently, since single gender schools are closing down. If boy's are getting outscored, then why don't they look into HELPING the GD boys instead of blaming them as usual. What countries around the world are actually not anti male or anti female?

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Submitted by Michael on Sat, 2008-11-15 17:49