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Originally Posted by Ghostwriter
[*]School uniforms until 10th grade.[*]Separate schools or, at least classrooms, for boys and girls until 10th grade.[/LIST]
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If you're going to do them till 10th grade, you might as well go ahead and go the whole way through till 12th. If combined, this would REALLY be a mess - the opposite sex in the classroom for the first time and getting to wear whatever you want for the first time? That would make People of Walmart look like NYC Fashion Week.
I kind of agree with the first (only kind of because it just treats a symptom and doesn't really get to the heart of the problem) and completely disagree with the second. As agzg said, this is completely unfeasible for most rural school districts (as are many many many options that people bring up to "improve" schools). Not to mention, it just strengthens the stereotype that girls can't learn with boys around. If they're in the same school - do you really think that kids won't know who the "brains" are in the opposite sex classroom next door?
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Originally Posted by KSig RC
This is probably the most important - one of the main problems in modern childhood education is the proliferation of "one-track" schooling ... we pretend that's the best way for every child, when in reality, a mix of (pre-college/trade/technology/skilled labor/life-skills/other) tracks would be markedly more effective, and wouldn't cost much more in the way of money or manpower.
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Many schools do still offer business/agriculture/shop/votech curricula in high school. The problem is getting it through the parents' thick head that their kid is more suited for that than they are to go to college.
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