show 42 said:Personally, I think it's important, at least in the elementary schools, that boys and girls are mixed. They learn from each other many important "social" graces and how to interact with each other. I think that girls (sorry guys) push the boys to be better academically........just my own observation here, but I think that there have been studies done.......42
Piel said:One of our middle schools will separate boys and girls for English, Social Studies, Science, and Math classes this year. Do any of your schools do this?
Ptichka said:Here is another tought on gender seperation: when I went to school in Russia, though it was co-ed, we had seperate classes for cooking/sewing for girls, and woodworking and such for boys. Sexist as this sounds, it was actually rather nice.
That's funny! The discipline DROPPED and they like it! (I know they probably just wanted to say "discipline problems")"Last year, some eighth-graders couldn't keep their hands off each other," she said. "We separated them at lunch and discipline dropped significantly."