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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD goes to an all girls high school and I am a fan of single sex education. I only hung out with boys from the all boys Prep School near me (think Georgetown Prep). I was in public and the boys at my public school were all unmotivated and wanted to party or were nerds - no in between. The Prep boys were from good families and were great kids. They were all athletes (even a lacrosse player) and none of them were anything but respectful and kind to others/girls. I’m sure there were some bad apples, but I never met any of them. Toxic male behavior can be found everywhere. I think the benefits of an all boys school far outweigh any perceived negatives.[/quote] how come the best high schools in the country are overwhelmingly coed?  Honest question.  [b]What do you know that they dont?[/b][/quote]

What do I know that a bunch of coed schools don’t? You sound weirdly defensive about my preference. Maybe I have different beliefs and values than the people that chose coed privates?  But sure, I’ll play along. First, I have my daughter’s personal preference. She was neutral when she first started high school (coming from a coed school) but now loves it. She finds it much more conducive to learning and she has more opportunities to achieve leadership positions and see females acting in these roles. Speaking of leadership opportunities, while only one percent of the girls in the U.S. attend girls’ schools, 16 percent of female U.S. Senators and 23 percent of females in the U.S. House of Representatives are girls’ school graduates. Graduates of all-female schools are one and a half times more likely to graduate from college with degrees in math and science, and twice as likely to earn doctorate degrees. I don’t have a boy so I’m not going to do your homework for you, but there are plenty of studies that show an all boys education is good for boys for different reasons.

https://girlsschools.org/research/quick-facts/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272718301609#:~:text=Females%20in%20single%2Dsex%20classes,classes%20and%20do%20optional%20assignments.[/quote]

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