What does this fish have to do with schools?
Also, community colleges are not doing that great a job and they're huge drains on taxpayer money, more often than not. Add into it that they're not able to innovate (because they're not making even enough money to keep their doors open on tuition) and that boils down to not changing teaching styles in 100 years. Primary and secondary schools have been able to innovate to some degree of success because their budgets are tied to local communities, where CC are typically tied to state funding (at least, in every state I've lived in). In states where natural disasters/terrorist attacks happen, their budgets tend to be cut first. Which sucks. I support community colleges but it's very hard for them to be successful.
I don't know what the point of keeping boys and girls separate in classrooms would do - it seems like a waste of resources, particularly for smaller school systems. Two of everything when typical class size is 15 (meaning there'd be 7 or 8 kids in each class, and if there's a lot of one gender but not enough of the rest, then what?). They're already merging with other districts to increase their class sizes and share resources, I'd hate to think that kids in rural areas would be spending 2 hours each way on a bus every day to get to and from school, especially when a lot of them are already spending an hour. That also limits extracurricular activities that occur after school - either the bus ride is too long or their parents can't pick them up at a drop off point later that night.
I understand that girls do better in single-sex math and science classrooms (although correlation is not causation), but what a drain on resources. I guess it gives folks something else to complain about the next time around though, huh?
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