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[quote=Anonymous][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]

It's not the 80's anymore.

Those studies were about middle school students.

The girls now are top students, top athletes and going to Ivy's. Boy are with them side by side... day in and day out... in honors, IB and STEM programs, lifting weight at the gym, working on projects together. they are friends and they hang out because it is more natural to go somewhere together because they are always together not on a date, just friends. It happens more in coed school, boys treating girls as equals instead of just somebody you date and you imagine is only better at reading.

This does not happen in single sex schools. But who cares, join a club, do that through your church, maybe your child has a ton of sibling of one gender and the single sex works for them. Own your decision but understand the pros and cons.

The coed schools have a more normalized boy-girl relationship where boys and girls are partners and girls are okay beating boys and don't have to dumb down to be "liked".

I agree that this is not so much true in middle school. That is why STA and NCS start to mix in HS. (Of course we know the middle school mixing was a bit of a disaster.)[/quote]

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