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Originally Posted by raytri
The question for me, though, is whether those advantages are large enough or important enough to outweigh the presumed social benefits of learning to navigate in a two-gender world. Will segregation make either boys or girls less able to deal with that world when they grow up?
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That's the same thing I'm thinking.
Maybe the key is to isolate the particularr subjects at particular times where disparity is greatest and seperate by gender for those things only.
Also I think we can bypass a lot of the gender issues by moving toward "academy" model schools with smaller classes and more individualized attention.
That would actually allow for each student to get the education he/she needs.
But it would be helpful for educators in any case to understand these differences and apply them.