DT> MS>    Does that even matter after the VMI decision?
DT> MS>    I can't think of any way in which the courts would accept
DT> MS>single-sex HS  algebra classes in public schools when the courts 
DT> find
DT> MS>single-sex public  colleges unacceptable.  The standard the 
DT> Supreme
DT> MS>Court enunciated that  requires "exceedingly persuasive" arguments 
DT> in
DT> MS>favor of single-sex classes  couldn't be met in the case of a 
DT> college
DT> MS>where everyone lives on campus, so  that standard would be 
DT> unmeetable
DT> MS>for a math class in a public HS.  
DT> 
DT> I wonder....perhaps though there is a way to convince the courts that 
DT> equality can be maintained in single-sex classes.  I don't know but 
DT> do 
DT> they still have single sex gym?  This was true when I went to school. 
    Single-sex phsy-ed classes are one thing, since they have a long 
continuous history from when phys-ed started to now in most all schools.  
Arguments for such single-sex classes in phys-ed center around such things as 
girls not being as strong as boys for some sports, and that would meet the 
VMI test probably...but physical strength isn't an issue in algebra!
DT> If in math period one with Mr. Algebra was for males only, then 
DT> period 2 
DT> females only...isn't that equal? 
    Not when "separate but equal" was long ago rejected by the courts in the 
racial context!
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