John Boyer
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- Kingman, Kansas USA
My, oldest daughter has been in both a co-ed high school and an all female high school. In our case, my daughter excelled academically, socially and personally in the gender specific (female) high school option as opposed to the co-ed option.
In my opinion, the primary reasons for this are twofold: 1) she did not have the obvious boy/girl relationship-type distractions common in a co-ed environment and--most importantly--2) the female school had a “top-to-bottom” (I.e. board, superintendent, principals, teachers, &/c.) “corporate” (unifying) culture. In other words, the school created and enforced a non-negotiable atmosphere that reinforced that the school is the students “work-place”. Expectations of performance, adherence to school values and the respectable treatment of fellow students and school personnel, in and out of school, was very high; as would be expected from any successful employee in any responsible work environment.
However, I think the latter—structuring schools more like a “work place”— with a unifying culture—need not be exclusive, of course, to gender specific education. There are many fine co-ed educational options (private and public) that have successfully accomplished this rather difficult, but extremely important, objective.
My $.02 worth…….
John
In my opinion, the primary reasons for this are twofold: 1) she did not have the obvious boy/girl relationship-type distractions common in a co-ed environment and--most importantly--2) the female school had a “top-to-bottom” (I.e. board, superintendent, principals, teachers, &/c.) “corporate” (unifying) culture. In other words, the school created and enforced a non-negotiable atmosphere that reinforced that the school is the students “work-place”. Expectations of performance, adherence to school values and the respectable treatment of fellow students and school personnel, in and out of school, was very high; as would be expected from any successful employee in any responsible work environment.
However, I think the latter—structuring schools more like a “work place”— with a unifying culture—need not be exclusive, of course, to gender specific education. There are many fine co-ed educational options (private and public) that have successfully accomplished this rather difficult, but extremely important, objective.
My $.02 worth…….
John