A Look at Single Sex Classrooms

Cntnd. 2:As such it is quite important that we cater to our youth's most efficient learning styles. Care would need to be taken to ensure that the segregation would be strictly limited to that which the learning process most efficiently necessitates. It would hardly be beneficial to raise an entire generation of intelligent youths with skewed social performance. Our goal is not just to make our kids smart, but to give them the experience, intelligence and skills vital to well adjusted adult life

continued: Being a male in this sort of condition i was quickly acclimated to the concept that "learning is boring". It took me many years to realize on my own the true excitement and eminence in the pursuit of intellectualism. I had created a dualistic boundary between the the fun "real world" and the dull inconsequential world of confined persona. Attention and interest are completely integral to the retention of information and subsequently our youth's perception of education.

I remember vividly the crippling effects of substandard teaching techniques from my elementary education. Even in the "gifted" programs the instructors lacked something; personal strength and enthusiasm. Not only was I brain numbingly bored by the fact that I had an incredibly able and energetic body which was forced to stay immobile but had a considerable amount of difficulty learning from a human whom I, for reasons I did not understand at the time, viewed as "weak" or unworthy of respect.

Back in the mid-60s I attended an elementary school that had all girl/all boy grades...this is not a new concept.