[SAMWolf]

I love it when what is obvious to most, smacks the "we know better than you" crowd up the side of the head.

[The American]

I attended a public (coed) school, and I think that there are benefits you get from being with the other gender. If you split up boys and girls, you could be setting the children up for antisocial behavior later on in their schooling, and maybe into the rest of their lives. It may not be completely obvious, but I think there will be some discomfort for some students when they are re-integrated into a coed world.

[JmyBryan]

But what about the hermaphrodites? lol

[FairWitness]

"Girls, you can reason with. Boys, some are defiant."

I hope "- - - you can reason with - - -" is not just a euphemism meaning, "they always come around to letting the teacher be right".

[VoodooEconomist]

Well, it only took liberals 150 years of experimentation to discover the obvious. That's progress.

[Who dat?]

When only 7 percent of students meet reading or writing standards, and none meets the mark for math, there's no way to go but up.

Wanna bet? Just wait until it's 0% for all categories.

[Harrison Bergeron]

These gender seperating "experiments," from what I've read (and I've read quite a lot on the subject) have positive results for both sexes everywhere they're tried. But despite the obvious benefit for girls as well as boys, look for the feminazis in the form of the Association of University Women and the National Organization of Women, and the NEA to cry foul, loudly. Look for them to point to early 20th century segregation and moan about "seperate but equal" to anyone who tries to talk about the success of the program. The reason? Well, public school programs have put girls math and science scores on par with those of boys over the last few decades not by improving the scores of the girls, but by bringing everyones scores down to a more mediocre mean. To "segregate" boys from girls will bring the lie home to roost if the boys are allowed to their own devices. And they certainly can't allow boys to get specialized help with reading and english as girls are getting with math and science. That would kill the whole Girl Power program at HHS if it caught on!

Also, look for the feminist slant even in this article. The writer looks for the benefit to girls... but doesn't question whether boys benefit... only the problem of disciplining them.

And anyone who worries about socialization in non-coed academic environments is showing their government school bias. There is life outside the classroom. Boys and girls have a way of finding each other no matter what. And there are plenty of unsocialized wallflowers in coed schools.

[patlaw_guy]

The Seattle Taliban? Perhaps they're only one step away from not educating the girls at all...

[TheMole]

This is an idea whose time has come. Kudos to the poster who pointed out that girls' math and science scores have not actually "caught up", but that in reality boys' scores have fallen.