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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How often does this come up on threads about all-boys schools?[/quote]

Actually it does, but it is couched differently. The concern is without the civilizing influence of girls in their classes, the boys will lack respect for them.

Of course this is nonsense. These boys have plenty of contact with the opposite sex after school, on weekends and vacations. [b]As do the girls at the single sex girls schools.[/b][/quote]

My DD studied and socialized primarily with girls during her years of girls high school . The BF thing started towards the end of her senior year which was a good time for her maturity wise. I don’t regret that she focused on school for most of her 4 years of high school rather than boys - that will make a huge difference in her future. [/quote]

But in coed schools boys and girls socialize without dating. That's the difference, they are friends/work on projects together  not just someone you date.[/quote]

Isn't "hanging out" in these large groups socializing without dating? At a school like Visitation almost all these girls went to grammar schools that served both sexes.

Girls and boys learn differently. Putting them into the same classroom with a single mode of instruction helps some and hurts other.

Those who seem to want both in the same school are hoping to change long established behaviors in an attempt to do a little social engineering. The overwhelming majority of Americans have gone to schools with both sexes. How's that working out?[/quote]

It’s not just that boys and girls learn differently, it’s that arbitrary sex role stereotypes take over and suddenly girls aren’t good at math and science and boys aren’t good at ‘reading’. The kids themselves feel pressure to align themselves with those stereotypes. Single sex education is much better at this age - the dating and mingling at school can wa[/quote]

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