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Char. Limit said:I have a thought. It might not be a good one, but I did think it, and so it is technically a thought. It exists, if anything can be said to exist. OK, maybe you are getting bored with this boring blather. Now to the aforementioned thought.
Have we ever considered the idea of sending boys and girls to separate schools, each catering to their separate needs?
Of course, if this were any other forum, I would brace for the cry of "sexist".
If you think about it, in general, middle school boys can't stand middle school girls, and vice versa. Of course, this changes in high school. But has anyone modern entertained this notion, and if so, does it work?
Kim Gandy said:Supporters of separation argue, without proof, that boys and girls are so different that they must be tought differently. But studies show that gender differences are relatively small and becoming smaller. For example, the degree of overlap in girls' and boys' math skills was computed at between 98% and 99%, while in verbal skills the overlap was 96%.
Washington Post said:The school has no test data yet by which to judge the experiment, but Howard noted that grades for children in same-sex classes improved in many subjects. A parent survey found that almost half the boys and almost two-thirds of the girls in the classes had better attitudes toward school.
DaveC426913 said:It's pretty straightforward: children have a far higher chance of surviving to adulthood today than at any other time in history. And they will be much healthier, and they will live longer.
Borek said:I agree, but... look around :yuck: