[IronJack]

I'm confused. Is someone actually advocating classes and facilities segregated on the basis of gender? I thought that, according to the Supreme Court's logic, "separate is inherently unequal." At least that was the line of reasoning the activist court followed in their landmark ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education when they created a judicial power to deny Americans their right to free association.

[GeronL]

If the right to freedom of association meant public school students, many wouldn't be in school at all.

[TWohlford]

Brown vs Board doesn't apply to gender. Sorry.

[paltz]

no. They are not demanding that boys and girls in the Mich. public school sysytem learn separately. However, some students learn better when they are in single sex classrooms, so they are giving the Michigan parents the "choice" of giving their children a single sex education.

[eleni121]

Is someone actually advocating classes and facilities segregated on the basis of gender?

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Oh yes. Muslims are advocating for it. They are demanding it. As it stands many of them send back to or keep their kids in muslim places of origin in order to be brought up the way they want.

[metmom]

Michigan? As in Detroit? As in.... Do I detect other cultural influences on the desire to separate boys and girls? If it were any other city.....

[Tired of Taxes]

landmark ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education when they created a judicial power to deny Americans their right to free association.

The Brown case didn't take away the right to "free association." Americans can associate freely; but, if it's a gov't-funded "association" (such as a "public school"), then it can't exclude people based on what is an unalterable characteristic - your "race".

However, I agree the case has led to bad programs such as bussing kids to schools all over the place in some kind of crazy social experiment.