Posted on 02/09/2012 4:15:52 PM PST by cakid1
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.
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