teaching boys and girls separately !

1.) there are two camps: those who favor separating boys from girls because they are essentially different and those who favor separating boys from girls because they have different social experiences and social needs. Leonard Sax represents the essential-difference view. He says that boys dont hear as well as girls and that would result in the teacher having to speak louder in a classroom. - I dont really agree with this quote or with leonard sax. While i think boys are harder to keep attention spans of, i think that its just the teachers job to find ways to get the girls and the boys attention in a classroom and if she cant get their attention then that teacher isnt meant for the job. Its also said that boys typically take a longer time to mature for their age than girls and so this would mean that they could be more rowdy. i dont think them being rowdy and not listening or hearing has anything to do with them being hard of hearing...

2.) "The really the most important reason to send a child to a single-sex high school was that those kids still go on dates. “Boys at boys’ schools like Old Farms in Connecticut, or Saint Albans in Washington, D. C., will call up girls at Miss Porter’s in Connecticut, at Stone Ridge in Maryland, and they will ask the girl out, and the boy will drive to the girl’s house to pick her up and meet her parents. You tell kids at a coed school to do this, and they’ll fall on the floor laughing. " - I think this is an important quote to discuss because it shows that the boys in single sex high schools have more respect for the girls that they date. They have more respect for them becauase they arent around girls and school and socialize with them 7 days a week , 6 hours a day. When they see the girls from an all girls school, they view them as a privilege. They view the date as a privelege that this girl does not have to date them. While i've met some pretty decent boys who still open the car door or call to ask a girl out and meet her parents and they go to a public coed high school. I do agree that it makes sense why this happens more often at single sex high schools. I am not opposed to single sex high schools. Its more of somebody's preference.

3.) Nationwide, boys are nearly twice as likely as girls to be suspended, and more likely to drop out of high school than girls (65 percent of boys complete high school in four years; 72 percent of girls do). Boys make up two-thirds of special-education students. They are 1.5 times more likely to be held back a grade and 2.5 times more likely to be given diagnoses of A.D.H.D - I just found these statistics to be really shocking. I knew that more boys probably drop out of high school than girls. I just always thought that was because girls like school and learning more than boys. But i didnt think about boys and how often they are suspended or how many special education students are boys. The A.D.H.D i sometimes feel like people just want to label children and put a diagnosis on them because of a way they act or talk or learn. When it might just sometimes not all the time but sometimes or every once in a blue mooon it is just a phase or the child's age that they are at.

Wow, i really enjoyed this article. Everythign about it was really interesting and the information pulled me right in. I dont agree with the idea of separating boys and girls in elementary schools. I think that boys and girls need to be in the same classroom and its all about socializing. If you separate them , girls and boys will never learn how to work together and they wont learn how the other processes information. Girls and boys should know about each other and why they do the things they do.