ProggyMan

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/ma...x3-t.html?_r=1
Thoughts?

TheBig3

whats your opinion?

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ProggyMan

I think it works to an extent as a voluntary thing restricted to private schools and perhaps charter schools (Which are a whole different topic), but I think what we really need is a more individualized education system. Sadly I don't think that's really practical. We're so far in debt as it is there simply isn't more money for education. Anyway, Sax is right about the way boys and girls learn differently, but it's not that simple. As is pointed out by Sax's critics there's too much overlap to just stick boys and girls into two different groups like that. The current system where everyone is simply lumped into one group is arguably even worse, but it's also more practical than segregating public education by gender. Like I said, there doesn't seem to be money for anything better. Before any sweeping changes are made to the school system we need to get out of national debt.

Janszoon

I think it's pointless product of old fashioned thinking. A large component of school is learning how to function in society with other people, with gender segregation students miss out on half of the experience.

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Burning Down

Co-education is necessary. Boys and girls feed off of each others behaviours when they're learning together, in the playground, at home, etc. This is how people learn to function in society.

FaSho

What bull****
"William Bender pulled a stool up to a lectern and began reading to his fourth-grade boys from Gary Paulsen’s young-adult novel “Hatchet.” Bender’s voice is deep and calm, a balm to many of his students who lack father figures or else have parents who, Bender says, “don’t want to be parents. They want to be their kids’ friends.” Bender paused to ask one of his boys, who said he was feeling sick, “Are you going to make it, brother?” Then he kept reading. “ ‘The pain in his forehead seemed to be abating. . . .’ What’s abating, gentlemen?” The protagonist of “Hatchet” survives a plane crash and finds himself alone by an insect-infested lake. Bender encouraged his boys to empathize. They discussed how annoying it is, when you’re out hunting, to be swarmed by yellow flies.

Meanwhile, in Michelle ***’s fourth-grade class, the girls sang a vigorous rendition of “Always Sisters” and then did a tidy science experiment: pouring red water, blue oil and clear syrup into a plastic cup to test which has the greatest density, then confirming their results with the firsthand knowledge that when you’re doing the dishes after your mother makes fried chicken, the oil always settles on top of the water in the sink. "

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OceanAndSilence

qft

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Captain Awesome

What they said^ I agree 100%

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VEGANGELICA

Captain Awesome!!! I agree with *you* 100% in agreeing with them 100%

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The Monkey

****ing ridiculous. Gender differences are imposed by society, they don't exist in birth.