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.
It was a good idea before the Supreme Court legalize sodomy.
It’s not a safe idea now.
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.
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.
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
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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).
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.
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.
I wish our boys had the option....
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.
If parents want to send their kids to single sex schools that is their right. There are certainly advantages to it.
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.
yes, it is a great idea!
