[Magdalen] BSA

[Jay Weigel]

I would certainly have been relieved to have been away from boys in junior
high (grades 7-9, in my case) and I believe I personally would have
benefited from being in an all-girls environment in high school. I know the
single-sex environment isn't for all kids, but in my case I think it would
have boosted my self-confidence greatly as well as being academically
beneficial and a whole lot less distracting. I had a friend who went to an
all-girls Catholic high school in Milwaukee and I used to envy her being
away from the rowdies and a lot of the social pressures that went with a
big urban high school in the late 1950s-early 1960s.

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> On 28/07/2015 18:18, Jay Weigel wrote:
>
>> I don't think everything in the world has to be co-ed. There are both boys
>> and girls (and men and women, I'm sure also) who would prefer to be in
>> single-sex groups at least some of the time. There are studies that show
>> that girls who are educated in all-girl high schools, for instance, are
>> likely to have more self-confidence and be higher achievers, and also
>> studies that show benefits to separating boys and girls for instruction in
>> middle school years, when hormones make for a lot of distraction. But the
>> minute anything like that is suggested, the "equality" freaks bust a blood
>> vessel.
>>
>
> That is called the diamond approach to education.  Locally we have a
> coiple of private schools that I have heard in the past few days have
> adopted that approach.  They are co-ed up to Year 6 (age 11), then single
> sex for the next five years.  They have finished their provision at that
> age, the end of compulsory education, but are now planning a co-ed
> provision beyond that to the end of normal school at age 18.  All of this
> will be on a new site to facilitate organization.
>
> As a male who was in single-sex education from age 7 through to university
> I believe this is a sensible approach.  The girls can humanise the boys and
> help them develop a more sensible relationship with the other gender once
> the turbulence of adolescence is passed. I certainly miss being with
> females in a peer asexual context when I was growing up.
>
> Roger
>