White Rain
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This is a shock to me! I don't know how I feel about it...leaning more towards not liking it I think.
My 10 year old (11 on Monday!) is a total tom-boy and likes hanging out with boys more than she does girls. She has some really good friends who are boys, and I'd hate to see her lose them.
ATLANTA -- Students in all of Greene County's regular public schools will be separated by gender starting next fall, a move educators hope will improve rock-bottom test scores and reduce teen pregnancy and discipline rates in the small, rural system.
The school board approved the measure last week, drawing vocal protests from some students, parents and community members. It exempts only a charter school, which is public but operates independently from the rest of the system and has a limited attendance zone.
School officials say they need drastic change to save the low-performing district from slipping further behind the rest of the state.
"This school district is in bad shape," said Superintendent Shawn McCollough. "We've made very positive incremental steps in the last two years. Our kids need help faster than what we're doing, and that's why we're moving to a faster, more innovative program."
Districts nationwide have been scrambling to implement single-sex education, since federal officials finalized rules to ease the process in 2006. Nationally, there are 366 public schools that are either entirely single sex or have single-sex classrooms, according to the National Association for Single Sex Public Education.
more: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15305470/detail.html
My 10 year old (11 on Monday!) is a total tom-boy and likes hanging out with boys more than she does girls. She has some really good friends who are boys, and I'd hate to see her lose them.
ATLANTA -- Students in all of Greene County's regular public schools will be separated by gender starting next fall, a move educators hope will improve rock-bottom test scores and reduce teen pregnancy and discipline rates in the small, rural system.
The school board approved the measure last week, drawing vocal protests from some students, parents and community members. It exempts only a charter school, which is public but operates independently from the rest of the system and has a limited attendance zone.
School officials say they need drastic change to save the low-performing district from slipping further behind the rest of the state.
"This school district is in bad shape," said Superintendent Shawn McCollough. "We've made very positive incremental steps in the last two years. Our kids need help faster than what we're doing, and that's why we're moving to a faster, more innovative program."
Districts nationwide have been scrambling to implement single-sex education, since federal officials finalized rules to ease the process in 2006. Nationally, there are 366 public schools that are either entirely single sex or have single-sex classrooms, according to the National Association for Single Sex Public Education.
more: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15305470/detail.html
; however, as a teacher, I'm concerned. There are many students who are "better" (for lack of a better word) with friends of the opposite sex. This could, in fact, alienate them further with their own sex. Plus, the superintendant was talking about teaching strategies and how the genders learn differently and this would allow teachers to teach more gender specifically. The example he used was that girls learn from lecture and boys learn from doing. While that may be true 50% of the time, if the teachers accept it as true more than that, there's going to be a problem.
