Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Seattle, WA, is one of 250 public schools in the nation now offering single-sex education. No, this doesn't mean their health teachers are homophobic. Single-sex education means that boy students learn in classes with all boy students, and girl students learn in classes with all girl students. Prior to the school's conversion, in 2000, only 10% of boy students had satisfactory reading scores, one of the lowest numbers in the nation. One year into the single-sex experiment, that percentage shot up to 66%. Now, some boy students don't like this setup because there's no little ladies around to awkwardly flirt with. And some feminists don't like this setup, because it suggests that there is truly a pyschological difference between the genders. But, it's hard to argue with results. Looking back, if I had spent less time trying to look cool and make jokes in front of girls in high school, I could be a dentist or something by now. February 7, 2007
Sex-Separated Schooling
Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, in Seattle, WA, is one of 250 public schools in the nation now offering single-sex education. No, this doesn't mean their health teachers are homophobic. Single-sex education means that boy students learn in classes with all boy students, and girl students learn in classes with all girl students. Prior to the school's conversion, in 2000, only 10% of boy students had satisfactory reading scores, one of the lowest numbers in the nation. One year into the single-sex experiment, that percentage shot up to 66%. Now, some boy students don't like this setup because there's no little ladies around to awkwardly flirt with. And some feminists don't like this setup, because it suggests that there is truly a pyschological difference between the genders. But, it's hard to argue with results. Looking back, if I had spent less time trying to look cool and make jokes in front of girls in high school, I could be a dentist or something by now.