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“Girls now get better grades than boys do, in every subject, in every grade K-12. Women at university in the United States now outnumber men by roughly 60/40….The all-boys format creates the opportunity to do things differently” - IFS

Discussion

Fri, 08/25/23

I taught 6th grade math one year in NM, and my section of the class was made up exclusively of boys. We spent the entire fall semester being goofy together and learning the basics. At the start of the spring semester, a cute blond girl enrolled in the 6th grade and joined our class. Immediately every boy in the class turned into a complete fool, forgetting everything he had learned the 1st semester and falling all over himself trying to impress this new girl. After a week of total nonsense, she switched to the other section and almost immediately the class returned to its former state, and the boys could do math again.

I'm not sure if all boys schools are the answer, but ever since that experience I have thought that gender segregation is advantageous in an academic setting, at least in middle school.