At secondary/high school ages, I can see a benefit in gender segregated classes but within mixed schools. That strikes me as a good way of achieving the benefits without sacrificing the social interaction side of things which is arguably more significant. I don’t think mixed gender classes is necessarily a major problem and I’d take that over preference to entirely single-gender schools.
If they don't learn how to socialize/mingle with the opposite gender at an early age, then they'll be overwhelmed and find themselves in odd situations when they get older.
I went to an all girl's boarding school for 2 years. It was great.. We still socialized with boys but school was for learning.
Did you know that in some countries in the middle east girls aren't even allowed to go to school at all.
Did you know that in Sweden you'll end up in prison for homeschooling your kid? #modernliberaldemocracy
Gender segregated schools should always be an option. I think of it similar to home schooling. As long as kids also experience other genders and are a part of the bigger community...why not. There would obviously be less distraction for learning.
We then do come back to the question if a person has a penis and says "I'm a girl," then that person goes to the girl's classes, correct? And then there is the matter of you can't end the attraction diversion EXCEPT for heterosexuals. Sounds like a very extra-rights for gays. Simply, since orientations are all over the place and gender is whatever a person says it is at the particular moment, it wouldn't work nor be fair.
Would it be less distracting for gay and lesbian students? Or more distracting? A school declares heterosexuals may NOT be around potential partners but homosexuals will be exclusively surrounded 100% by potential partners? Crummy deal unless you are gay and then it is fantastic.
I was going by that outdated boring 2 gender rule...my bad. I guess it boils down to options should be made available to all. Which means I don't have an answer. lol
I would be fine with it if parents/students were given the choice. That, however, would require we break apart large schools which are easier to administer and go back to much smaller campuses.
The point to government schools is that the good of the polity is the priority. In the US, everyone - regular students, students with disabilities, ESL, blind - has the opportunity to attend public school K-12. That isn't true in most of the World, & the Islamic world mostly (not everywhere, but mostly) relegates girls/women to very secondary or infantile roles. That difference is one reason the West regularly outperforms Islamic countries - talent is where you find it, & we actually try to find it. If all parents in the US have sufficient educational background to make sound choices for their children & the other children in the local polity, maybe policy could be what the parents want. That would need to be worked out between the local school corporation & the state department of education (the usual agency @ the state level). In the schools where the children need impartial mentors & good role models the most, though, the parents aren't usually up to the challenge of deciding what's best - educationally - for their children. Or the parents are indifferent or absent altogether. It's a tough call - I say the schools exist as an act of faith in the future of the polity, & the children should be educated to that end.
Recently, a city council in one smaller city in Sweden noted that many parents now choose to put their daughters in private schools and in the public schools the boy on girl ratio had dropped to 60:40 from being about 50:50. Some local politician commented this trend with something along the lines of "it is a worrying trend, we are losing equality." Lmao. Let students and parents choose! Obviously it is not the trend in it itself that is worrying but rather the cause of it. I would guess that it is primarily the fact that schools are no longer safe for girls (we have had a couple of rapes on schools over the last years) and that public school simply does not produce results worthy a nation like Sweden.
No kid would ever say that unless s/he is brainwashed from home. A 7 year old boy would never ever say "I am a girl, I want girls' school!"
Britain's best boarding schools such as Eton are all-boys schools. But these exclusive boarding schools charge around £33,000 for boarding a year, slightly higher than the average salary in the UK.
Britain's best boarding schools? I can see costs declining for grain, steel, even manufactured goods in general, through pricing competition. But best education isn't a mere widget. & bear in mind that the same line of thought almost completely destroyed the Brontës, one of the best-known families in British letters, by following a least-cost model of education for daughters of clergy - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontë_family#Early_education.
No I saw it on an NCIS LA episode. A little research will show that only until recently girls were not allowed to attend school in most Islamic nations. Even now females are regarded as second class citizens and are forced to cover up in many of those nations. They are treated even worse than we treated our slaves many years ago.
No, please tell me which Islamic nations in the middle east won't allow girls to go to school or even just recently allowed girls to go to school. You seem to be changing the subject.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_education_in_Saudi_Arabia#Segregation_in_social_life Women in Saudi Arabia need permission to study from a male.
