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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is at a girls' school and I would say it was great until about 10th grade.  Then I'd say that she and almost all her friends started wishing they were at a coed school. 
-they missed boys.  Not only as romantic interests but as friends and classmates. 
-girls get really intense and competitive.  It's a lot to go through junior year, college admissions, etc with all girls.  Boys are just more chill (in general--i have two of both).  the girls school environment when all the girls are stressed out can get toxic fast.

In retrospect maybe we would have chosen a woman's college instead.  We have a second daughter who is at the girls school and are likely moving her for high school to a coed environment. [/quote]

I never found my all girls HS to be competitive, intense, etc. Which doesn't mean your kids didn't experience that!

It depends entirely on the individual, her social crowd, and the school. It's possible there were girls at my school who found it intense at the same time my friends and I found it supportive. 
But I really dislike the generalizations about how girls "are" or that all-girls environments inevitably get toxic. [/quote]

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