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Originally posted by Taualumna
There are schools that subtly do that. We don't know if the girl on the show went to an all girls' school or not, but I do know that many have seminars on women in maths and sciences, and try to steer girls away from more traditional majors. It usually doesn't work all that well, but I can tell you that over half the girls take more than one math course in their senior year and almost all take one math.
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that's because just like college, high schools have requirements for graduation. we had to take a certain number of math, science, social studies, etc classes to graduate, and that usually works out to be at least one a year. i have many friends that went to all girls private schools, i applied to an all girls private school but decided i wanted to stay in public school. none of them were ever pressured, subtly or not, into doing certain things. that may have been your experience, but you can't generalize it to everyone.