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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No parent wants combined genders. I doubt many parents are even aware this is the plan for next year.[/quote]

I am the parent of a 4th grade boy and I have absolutely no problem with combined gender FLE classes.  There is nothing in the girls’ lessons that he shouldn’t hear and nothing in his that would hurt them.  Receiving the same information together is both egalitarian and practical.  It helps students understand each other more and have empathy toward each other.  It helps create understanding rather than division. [/quote]

I have a boy and a girl.  I agree there is nothing that the boy will hear that won’t benefit him.  But I think having the boys present will harm the girls.  In 4-5th grade it is the girls who are actively going through puberty.  They’re the ones with immediate questions and concerns.  Having boys present in that room will impede that conversation.  I’ll go further and add I think the effect of gender combined classes is anti-girl even if that wasn’t the intent.[/quote]

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