Posted on 03/10/2011 10:41:56 AM PST by TopQuark
Kansas City, Missouri (Reuters) – Single-sex lunches introduced in three schools in America's heartland have helped to reduce misbehavior among students and improve eating habits, authorities said.
The Wichita, Kansas middle schools, for students aged 11 to 14 years old, started the separate lunches for boys and girls to reduce teasing, rough-housing and flirting.
"The girls really seem to like it because they get their girl time without having to worry about boys," said Michael Archibeque, principal at Pleasant Valley Middle School. "And the boys don't show off for the girls. I think it's the perfect age for this."
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In January, at least 524 public schools had classrooms that were single sex, up from about a dozen in 2002, according to the National Association for Single-Sex Public Education.
The association did not have figures on how many schools with co-educational classrooms have single-sex lunchrooms. School principals generally do not require approval of the school board or state departments of education to have single-sex lunches."
But, suppose for a moment, that boys "really seem to like" single-sex football or wrestling...
single sex schools = all positives, no negatives
Junior high school kids act like idiots in the presence of other junior high school students of the opposite sex? Who woulda thunk it?
Don’t Muslims force men and women to eat separately? Why would we want to emulate them?
I bet the builders of the pyramids noticed the same thing...
We do it for a better education of both boys and girls, they do it for a completely different reason.
Perhaps if they actually employed some discipline to those who do act up, that would solve the problem.
If I pulled that kind of stunt when I was in school, I would have gotten three licks in the Principal’s office.
I agree with the concept. Even at a tender age I preferred to dine exclusively with members of the same, or on members of the opposite sex.
Damn, they really are turning schools into prison facilities.
I won’t argue that, corporal punishment is the best, time proven method for a civil society there is.
Have you ever worked with kids?
As opposed to when they are in the presence of kids of the same gender?
They're knuckleheads, no matter what, I should know, I was once in Junior High, myself.
GREAT.
Now, what do we do with the QUEEROS?, and the TRANSGENDERS?
They are complete, off-the-chart knuckleheads around members of the opposite sex.
Separation during certain segments of their schedule is a healthy thing.
That's why they invented dodge-ball.
Orthodox Jews have separate sitting in synagogues and at weddings.
Only Liberals firmly believe they can rewire human nature. When I was in junior high, the worst we had to worry about was the occasional fight. Granted I graduated JHS in 1999, thinking back to those years, the times weren’t that bad. Hell, we even played segregated football in the mornings. No other students or teachers ever said anything about it, so we continued until people lost interest.
Public schools in the U.S. were co-ed for more than a hundred years, and problems like this didn't exist.
"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."
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