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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter started all girls in 9th (now in 10th). She had no interest in applying or in the school until visiting day. After spending a day on campus, I asked her what she liked best and she said “it’s interesting how much they get done in one hour when they are no boys calling out the wrong answer on purpose.”

I was floored.

In retrospect, she says she wishes she had switched in 7th or 8th bc she found that boys became more distracting/disruptive to the classroom experience.

She’s incredibly happy. [/quote]

Op here and that’s what my DD experience on a visit say to the girls school last year. She listed everything they did and I asked if it was a special schedule for the visiting girls because it seemed packed. She had the same response as this PP’s DD- they just got so much done without the constant need for teachers to interrupt boys’ behavior or redirect them.

She likes her prek-8th school well enough but it’s small and there is a lot of social rigidity. So even though there are 2 classrooms per grade and 20 kids per gender, there are only 19 potential friends because girls and boys who play together get accused of being boyfriend/girlfriend or having crushes or get excluded by the kids of their own gender. DD’s hope is that even small grades at girls’ schools would have more potential friends.

DD does a coed sport and has lots of friends who are boys outside of school (including classmates who she has to hang out with in secret- they won’t even acknowledge each other at school). So I’m not super worried about her causal relationships, more about whether she’ll learn to work alongside boys in the future.[/quote]

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