Single-sex classrooms gaining favor

[valkyrie]

IowaHawkeye, I hear what you're saying, but I'm very troubled by the fact that society is getting to the point where there seems to be a "need" for single sex education to obtain all the benefits that come from attending a single sex school. Why do girls in single sex educational settings have higher self esteem and do better on tests? I would rather figure that out and address it than separate boys from girls in schools. I think that the *why* is VERY important here. What is going wrong for girls in our school system? Can't we fix it?

I also know that you have excellent social skills, but I would imagine that there are plenty of people educated in single sex schools who don't because they have never really learned to deal with the other gender in a work/school related setting. Most of the things you mentioned in terms of interaction between the girls' and boys' schools involved primarily social or "fun" activities -- homecoming, dances, band, cheerleading. I wonder where the boys and girls learn to actually work with people of the other gender. I'm not saying they don't, I'm just wondering how and where it happens.