What sport does she do? My daughter went to NCS a few years ago. She wasn't very athletic and so decided to do the only fall sport she felt she had any experience with---running. She joined the cross country team for their summer running program. It's co-ed with STA and GDS and the coaches are from both schools. It was a small group of about thirty. She was placed in a group of first time runners and started to meet girls and boys from both schools. At the end of summer STA/NCS goes to Vermont for ten days to conclude pre-season training. Imagine her, and our, surprise when they filled two motor coaches, about 90 kids for a ten hour trip. Before she had attended her first academic class at NCS, she knew a lot of kids and was able to establish her central group of friends, both boys and girls. To this day, she says it was one of the greatest experiences she ever had and those people are still a part of her life. Four years of cross country, indoor and outdoor track helped her establish a very large group of friends, male and female.

"It really is OK to skip this chapter of most people's development."

"A lot of posters here, OP included, seem to think something is “wrong” if this interaction isn’t happening. There’s nothing wrong and all of these kids will be just fine."

PP- The above two posts are what I was responding to. I'm encouraging parents to make sure their teens get exposure to the opposite gender outside of their same-sex school. There are at least two posters who feel that it's perfectly fine to go through adolescence with zero interaction with the opposite sex in or out of school, and I'm not one of them.

Anonymous wrote:I disagree. One of the best things about raising kids in the DMV is their exposure to people from lots of different countries, races, income groups, and so on. Why would you not value them interacting with half the human population (males)?

A teen has her after school hours, weekends, summers to interact with that half of the population. Single sex ed is just about the school day hours.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought NCS girls had frequent interaction with STA boys? Do they never see each other in any academic or extracurricular environment?

It's by no means frequent and the Covid years made it even less so. Pockets of high schoolers will see each other briefly in art classes, theatre, musical groups and some sports (track, swimming).
Then I believe they the kids take senior English together (my kids are not there yet). I've found that there is very little social mixing going on at present. My son and friends hang out mostly with
girls from other schools (Holton, Stone Ridge, other Catholics). I wish they spent more time with NCS girls.

11th and 12th grade English are split 50/50 NCS and STA, so in the upper grades there is daily interaction.

When I went to Whitman, Holton girls were very popular and present at most parties.