[Magdalen] Music memories

[Roger Stokes]

On 24/12/2014 04:10, Scott Knitter wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And don't forget its sister school for girls. Kingsbury or Kingswood, as I recall.
> They've realigned the schools once or twice. Their current
> configuration, one of which makes me think of pickles:
>
> Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School
> Cranbrook Kingswood Middle School for Girls
> Cranbrook Kingswood Middle School for Boys
> Cranbrook Lower School Brookside
> Vlasic Early Childhood Center
>
> Looks like boys and girls are together except during the Middle School years.
> "The single-sex program on separate campuses in the middle schools
> accommodates the specific physical, emotional, and learning
> differences between boys and girls in the adolescent years."

That is called the diamond system.  The reasoning is that by separating 
them when the hormones are raging both boys and girls are able to 
concentrate more on their work but also benefit from the cross-gender 
socialising when life is calmer.

Roger