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There's a public school in Alabama where little girls and boys are separated. The girls' classroom walls are yellow, the boys' blue. The girls' room temperature is kept at 75, the boys' at 69. The girls do a "tidy" science experiment with blue and red colored oil and water; the boys watch snakes eat rats. Should boys and girls be taught separately? wonders the Times Magazine writer observing all this. I've always thought "yes" on the basis that I spent most of my time in high school reapplying mascara, plotting the reapplication of mascara and withholding food to attract the attention of boys who I would never (in a million beers!) fuck today. School was just boring, besides this one AP class I had that happened to contain no boys (save for one who was clearly an affirmative action case.) But the case for single-sex education is wayyyy more fraught and elaborate than that, according to Leonard Sax, a family psychologist converted to the cause when a 12-year-old patient started suddenly getting good grades. The boy's mom said she'd simply taken him off the ADD meds and enrolled him in boy's school. "With all due respect, I regard single-sex education as an antiquated relic of the Victorian era," Sax said to her. More »
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