[jlogajan]

(My opinion is they should be schooled separately starting at this age.)

Good lord, I attended a Catholic school from grades one through senior high. It was co-educational. Apparently the Pope isn't as hung up about sex as you are.

[AFPhys]

I mostly agree with Bigg here... but I'm even more extreme.

I strongly would support the concept of putting all these kids in a closet from age 13-15 ... there is no sense even trying to teach them anything about school subjects at that time. Some will learn a whole lot during these ages, but you definitely can not teach them.

We would be much further along educationally if we made up those years by schooling the 3-5 year olds...

[Jeff Chandler]

>>Good lord, I attended a Catholic school from grades one through senior high. It was co-educational. Apparently the Pope isn't as hung up about sex as you are.<<

Actually, teaching children seperately when they reach puberty is a very good idea, if your purpose is to have them study and learn, and it really has nothing to do with being hungup. Children that age become terribly distracted by members of the opposite sex and have trouble concentrating. I've seen it many times. The group chemistry is entirely different with mixed sex classes.

Socializing with the opposite sex can take place before and after school, and on the weekends, so nobody is missing out on anything except wasted class time.

Mature adults once understood this concept, but our society has become so "enlightened" that we now know that there is no difference between boys and girls, and you can just lump them all together with no undesirable consequences. </sarcasm>

[Bigg Red]

Apparently the Pope isn't as hung up about sex as you are.
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My recommendation has more to do with the lack of concentration on scholastics that occurs at this age. In coed classes, both boys and girls become distracted and often worry so much about what the opposite sex thinks about how they look or act that learning falls by the wayside and class participation becomes limited to only those kids who are not so distracted.