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echo: educator
to: SHEILA KING
from: DAVE MAINWARING
date: 1996-06-28 05:27:00
subject: Single Sex Classes

 SK> particular program may be of great benefit to a large segment of our
 SK> school population, we have difficulty to implement it without legal
 SK> repurcussions.
There must be a rather large forum of discussion regarding single sex 
classes. Is there? Or is this another reform based on a single issue or 
anecdotal observation? IMHO (based on the one or two  TV programs I've seen 
on the subject) the advntages of single sex education can improve the 
education process. 
Part of the claim to success seems to be eliminating distractions. seems to 
me that this can be done for mixed classes without hAving to segregate the 
sexes.
In light of the recent court rulings the all same sex colleges are having a 
real problem with funding and are concerned in part because their existance 
is threatened. I don't see the same threat to K-12 schools.
-> girls and boys must learn to work together in preparation for a coed
-> world.
Damned if you do damned if you don't. :-)
-> hormones," writes the magazine.  NEWSWEEK:  "Impressing the
-> opposite sex is a 14-year-old's reason for being.  Take away that
-> pressure, and miracles happen."
At what age does it stop being the the reason? 
--- Maximus 2.01wb
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