I went to an all girl high school and highly recommend it.
Pumpkin math? I almost hesitate to ask...
What about us married folks?
Couldn't we learn something too?
Oh, wait....
During the late 60s, 70s and 80s, the judicial system struck down gender schools, even military schools, as being unconstitutional. All one-gender schools (those who receive public monies) had to be integrated. Now, after all these years, the pendulum is swinging towards segregation. Sounds much like fashion trends, whereas fashion trends change every 2-4 years integrated schools took 30 years. Good grief!
Single sex schools. Should we have single race schools.?
Do kids learn better if they are not bothered with the opposite sex?
I think we could probably prove that Whites certainly learned better before schools were integrated.
If one is ok , why not the other.
Now this is for discussion dont go making accusations ,I just dont see how separating the sexes is that much different than separating the races.
I don't see this as a problem... and I went to coed schools. Quite distracting actually, 10th grade math was a joke, two boys and 28 girls, male teacher, we two boys in the class did not get a lot of help on our math when we had questions.
So does these segregated public schools/classrooms for girls and boys mean that all white and all black schools/classes will be in the future as well?
...maybe all spanish-speaking public school?
I went to a Chicago public school, Kelly H.S. (class '66), and back then it was a good school with good teachers who cared (before unionization).
Come the Jr year we'd get a lot of new transfers - guys who flunked out of all boys schools like St Rita and De La Salle. And they (most) couldn't handle all the chicks girls, they went literally 'ga-ga'.
It was pretty funny, them doing the old 'pencil drop' trick. And the first couple of grading quarters they'd barely squeak by with a passing grade of 'D' ('F' was failing). They'd eventually acclimate but none as I recall made it to the top 25% of the class by Sr year and graduation (all student rankings with GPA's were posted for all to see).
Ahhh the good old days :-)
What do they say is always equal?
Also; I frequently hear of 'unnecessary deaths'. but, they never say how many necessary death there are.
Little help here...
I think what the Bush Admin has proposed is TERRIFIC!
Finally!
I tutor math off and on and it's ludicrous to believe that boys and girls have exactly the same aptitudes and interests. They don't even have the same attention spans.
Girls do much, much better in math and science in a single-sex environment until college. My best friend who tutors English and reading has long claimed that boys do better in those subjects when no girls are around.
When I went to school in Baltimore, there were four single sex public high schools (two boys and two girls). They were the best in the city and students from all over Baltimore went there. I attended the liberal arts boy's school. I had just moved from a county school system.
Later when I attended the state university, I met many of my old classmates from the country school system and shared experiences. IMHO, my high school better prepared me for college. My first year of college seemed "easier" than my last year of high school.
Me, too, as will any male Buzzcut offspring.