Teaching Boys and Girls Separately

[colonel-fan]

Are there any public schools in Kentucky doing this? Should there be?

 

 

Teaching Boys and Girls Separately

 

On an unseasonably cold day last November in Foley, Ala., Colby Royster and Michael Peterson, two students in William Bender’s fourth-grade public-school class, informed me that the class corn snake could eat a rat faster than the class boa constrictor. Bender teaches 26 fourth graders, all boys. Down the hall and around the corner, Michelle Gay teaches 26 fourth-grade girls. The boys like being on their own, they say, because girls don’t appreciate their jokes and think boys are too messy, and are also scared of snakes. The walls of the boys’ classroom are painted blue, the light bulbs emit a cool white light and the thermostat is set to 69 degrees. In the girls’ room, by contrast, the walls are yellow, the light bulbs emit a warm yellow light and the temperature is kept six degrees warmer, as per the instructions of Leonard Sax, a family physician turned author and advocate who this May will quit his medical practice to devote himself full time to promoting single-sex public education.

[ladiesbballcoach]

I would be supportive of it.

[PepRock01]

You'll find many of us who attended the Catholic Schools in Louisville being in support of this.

[colonel-fan]

You'll find many of us who attended the Catholic Schools in Louisville being in support of this.

 

CovCath and Notre Dame in NKY are the same. I was wondering if any public schools did this in KY. I don't have a problem with it assuming the standardized test the students are taking are the same to benchmark progress against.

[cch5432]

On one hand, I like it. On the other hand, if it was separated everywhere, wouldn't that be segregation?

[Alabama Larry]

Two middle schools here in Louisville are doing it that way. Southern/Iroquois.

[MoreheadEagle]

I have no problem with it. Studies show that children learn better when separated by sex. It's quite common in Japan to separate classes by gender. I'm also for uniforms or strict dress codes too.

[IM4THEHOUNDS]

I have no problem with it. Studies show that children learn better when separated by sex. It's quite common in Japan to separate classes by gender. I'm also for uniforms or strict dress codes too.

 

Wow, I agree with you. Is that scary or what?:scared:

[ladiesbballcoach]

The only problem is that soon some district would face a lawsuit for students of transgender and homosexual orientations. They would need their own school to learn better.

[ladiesbballcoach]

Wow, I agree with you. Is that scary or what?:scared:

 

It is supposed to snow this weekend.

Maybe whatmaplace has really frozen over.

[Mr.Fundamental]

I like this idea! But you would require double the teachers per subject.

[Covercorner]

Lexington Catholic does this in Freshmen Religion and Health/PE classes

[ladiesbballcoach]

I like this idea! But you would require double the teachers per subject.

 

Why?

 

If you have 150 freshmen students and need 2 teachers to cover English, then switched to the split, you might have 80 females and 70 males. One teacher to cover both over a day.

 

Still only need two teachers.

[Mr.Fundamental]

Why?

 

If you have 150 freshmen students and need 2 teachers to cover English, then switched to the split, you might have 80 females and 70 males. One teacher to cover both over a day.

 

Still only need two teachers.

 

How about at the smaller district levels such as 50 freshmen

[ladiesbballcoach]

How about at the smaller district levels such as 50 freshmen

 

They have two classes of 25, right now.

 

Split to boys and girls. 35 girls and 15 boys. Would go up to 3 classes, 2 of girls, 1 of boys.

 

Would only increase one class, not double.

 

If it split closer to 25 for each. No change. Two classses of 25.