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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All boy Catholic schools are creepy, imo.  Why shelter then from the real world where girls exist and you have to interact with them? [/quote]

Yeah, I used to think this way in the abstract about single-sex schools. Then we found a particular all-boys school that was a good fit for our son; other all-boys schools would have not have been as ideal of a fit. There were two co-ed schools we liked equally as well and were accepted to, but the particular all-boys school was a much easier commute for us and about $15K cheaper, so we weighed all the variables and decided on the all-boys school. I’m sure there will be some impact (good or bad), but that’s life and otherwise well-adjusted people can learn to navigate new environments as they encounter them.

And as a practical matter, girls are regular presence on campus as part of the drama program and dances. More important to me is that my son have a critical mass of female authority figures, which the school does. I would not send my son to a school that does not employ female instructors.[/quote]  drama and dances does not equal a regular presence.[/quote]

No it doesn’t - but a “regular presence” isn’t exactly necessary to avoid girls becoming some weird abstraction or alien figures that are different from “us” in all respects. Frequent social and cooperative interaction is sufficient and healthy. And, at any ratel, almost everyone at our school was in a coed school through 5th grade, and most elementary schools are heavily female (if not feminized) environments for better or worse.

What our boys don’t get now, is the need to performative under the female gaze (real or perceived) or the quiet message that some things aren’t for you because they are female-coded. You know, some of the same reasons a family may choose an all-girls school for their daughter without it being “creepy.” [/quote]

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