Posted on 02/09/2012 4:15:52 PM PST by cakid1
California.. All Male Schools.. No Girls Allowed..
Published reports say the Stockton Unified School district is looking at the possiblity of all male schools. The idea is to tackle some behavioral and academic problems for male students in K-8 classes.
If the plan moves forward it would be similar to what officials in Long Beach established for their male students.
Their mission statement includes:
".. to improve the graduation rate of underrepresented promising male students and to encourage lifelong learning by preparing them for college and career options."
I went to an all male Catholic school in New Orleans, my wife went to a girls school. In fact the public schools had a few separate schools, with waiting lists to get in them.
I am an advocate of single sex schools, everyone concentrates on school instead of appearances or whose dating who.
the boarding school i went to was like that...
and people who know me might observe “well, there’s your problem...” :)
seriously, what the public schools are doing now is not working, so it’s worth a try.
Went to an all girls schoolin Upstate NY. Excellent.
It was a good idea before the Supreme Court legalize sodomy.
It’s not a safe idea now.
I went to a Catholic high school in Dallas (Jesuit) and also an advocate of single sex schools. A lot more emphasis on academics to be sure.
Home school is the best idea.
I reckon their aim is socialization. For the most part, that happens in the home. They’ll be educated but no less savage.
I reckon their aim is socialization. For the most part, that happens in the home. They’ll be educated but no less savage.
It’s a great idea. It’s well known that males and females learn differently. By making schools single sex, the schools can customize the respective educational needs of the students.
Since the moral equivalency of a homosexual relationship is now being taught as early as six years of age, maybe this would be an excellent experiment in its application.
Tensions are still going to be pretty high. And the average intellectual level will still not change very much.
Boys need almost one-on-one, or at most, very small groups, to be fully focused on obtaining a truly lifetime education.
Now girls, on the other hand, do really well in single-gender classrooms, even with relatively large class sizes.
If you hate boys, boyishness, and maleness in general...if you’ve spent decades drugging boys, emasculating them with psy-ops, and otherwise forcing them to behave like “good little girls”...then no, this is definitely not a good idea.
Expect the NEA to oppose it tooth and nail.
I went to an all-male Catholic school too . But the “all-male” part of it wasn’t the Only reason it was a good school.
Note that prisons are all-male as well.
Withou a guiding moral code, mission, purpose, parental involvement, and independence that my private school had, I suspect the California educrats, who understand nothing of this, will more-or-less turn these into prisons also.
This is california.
How will they decide who’s who ?
If you get total isolation you get the Afghanistan worldview. You can integrate the sexes-—like for hundreds of years when the US had excellent schools-—one room. You need discipline, dress codes, and teachers of moral excellence and intelligence.
You need accountability and strictness and the ability to kick kids out of school. Going to school should be voluntary and the culture should glorify education and people who are of high intellect. All local control of schools.
And you need to teach morality and Ethics (judeo-Christian Ethics)-—what Aristotle and all intellectuals knew (until Marx) was the real purpose of education.
Central control of schools NEVER works-—no matter what you do.
That said...I'd be a supporter of same-sex schools...because I know it can be distracting.
I attended a private women’s college in NC. I cannot say enough about separating the sexes in education. When I went to a state coed college, I was amazed at how the teachers favored the male students and how the male students commanded so much attention. Not necessarily a bad thing, just genetics and biology, but I did notice a big difference in my ability to concentrate when there were men present.
Good for some, bad for others. Life’s a bitch and then you die. Art Linkletter had it right, people ARE funny. (That’s almost a Haiku)
Because if boys aren’t interested in reading books for girls, and if math consists of cut-and-paste glitter projects * they won’t be interested in reading or math.
* here’s one for history
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ilbHq1j1YsE/SvnwGuXgOvI/AAAAAAAAB3o/3aLYSdyVAlo/s1600/IB+World+History+test.jpg
I would wholeheartedly agree, however a high quality Christian or Jewish academy would probably be profit as single sex.
Public schools do such a poor job that it would be irrelevant.
High school classes should be rated NC-17 or worse and that's without the language.
My son went to an all boys high school, my daughter went to an all girls high school, and I taught in a co-ed public school. The single sex schools were by far superior because most of the problems in school today revolve around tensions and issues involving the opposite sex. There was none of that in my kids’ schools. The only thing they could do was focus on academics (and sports).
Yep. It could be a good idea to have all boy all girl schools except that in california especialy they are promoting homosexuality. So as it stands doesn’t make much sense. And then if you combine this idea with the transgenders or almost transgendered !what a mess.
“High school classes should be rated NC-17 or worse and that’s without the language. “
If the class is NC-17, imagine what happens AFTER class.
Really, it should be a no-brainer. There's no reason to break up coeducational schools that are doing a good job (why fix something that isn't broken) but where you have a problem with significant numbers of schools that aren't doing a good job, this is worth looking at as part of the solution.
Coed-sex schools, same-sex schools...I’m for NO sex in the schools.
My daughter did a research paper on the idea and horrified her liberal professors! Apparently us guys are more needy and louder than girls in a class so the quieter well behaved young ladies were forgotten!
I blame the womenz for being the cute!
YES!! Our sons went to an all male high school. They actually paid attention and LEARNED, without the distraction of trying to look cool for the girls, or act bad-a$$ for their benefit.
“imagine what happens AFTER class.”
or in between.
Then, there’s lunch.
And hall passes.
I wish our boys had the option....
My H.S. experience was my H.S. experience...Period.
I'd guess....many H.S. experiences now are not as you describe. There are thousands of H.S.'s that are decent.
IMO, there are many more thousands that are horrible....
But your narrow view is wrong...IMO.
Is it a good idea?
In a word - Yes.
Immature humans to whom their care is the responsibility of their parents and othe adults need structure and focus in their lives more than they do their Liberty.
Mixed gender schools provide the opportunity for distractions from the education purpose of school.
The loss of whatever liberties are minimized by single-gender schools are more than made-up by the benefits of greater focus on the academic side of school life there.
By the way, I’m in favor of school uniforms as well; which limit another area of distraction, social competition and immature social mean-spiritness over how well some student is or is not dressed.
Well we aint all criminals! And even the public schools in the suburb of New Orleans I lived in that were coed had amazingly better results, especially the girls schools. Unfortunately libtards in New Orleans couldn’t have that, and the last all girls school went coed in the 80s.
Kids at that age learn better in single sex environments. And again, noone would dare misbehave with Brother Melchior, the weight lifting and wrestling coach, around.
Jesuit! Dark side of the force :) I went to a Holy Cross school :) In New Orleans Holy Cross and Jesuit, well it was a blood feud in football season haha.
Jesuit! Dark side of the force :) I went to a Holy Cross school :) In New Orleans Holy Cross and Jesuit, well it was a blood feud in football season haha.
If parents want to send their kids to single sex schools that is their right. There are certainly advantages to it.
Same for husband and I, husband to male Catholic school(high school) and I to all female Catholic high school. We both went to Catholic elementary schools. In High School, we wore uniforms and they gave us lots of homework and were taught to be disciplined in all things. Best education we both received....
I tell you, it also helped me land some pretty good jobs because the schools had great reputations.
Good Idea? First of all it is a very OLD idea and in my opinion a very good one. I went to an all boys high school taught by Marist Brothers and I thank God that I was able to attend that school and not the public school. Not only did you get a good education but it built character in a rowdy bunch of boys who left a lot smarter and much more civilized.
With all females in the class, I felt encouraged to speak up and speak out. If there was one male, I felt intimidated for some unknown reason.
There was a televised study on males and females in the classrooms years ago. Even the best teacher favored the male students. One was surprised to find that she was using the female students to help her teach while giving the male students her attention. (She would have the female students hold her open books while directing the questions to the males.)
yes, it is a great idea!
I appreciate your reply to this thread.
I felt stronger, more confident and actually empowered when I attended Salem College in Winston-Salem.
It is by far one of the best experiences of my life and, being that I paid for my own tuition, one of which I am most proud.
My most all-time favorite professor was from New Zealand. He was so unbelievably hard and gave much more homework that all of my other professors put together. I was in awe of how much I learned and envious of the New Zealand students for whom this was the norm.
Yes, a good option, plus uniforms. The social environment is now so sexually charged that separation is a good alternative.
I went to an all-girls Catholic school. It was a great experience.
I'm in a relatively rural, predominately white area and am constantly appalled at the clothing, behavior and language of our children.
I dunno how you came to that conclusion....
Good luck!!
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