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There are many different learning styles not just if you're a girl you learn this way and if you're a boy you learn this way. This is a step backwards for women being equal to men. The court ruled in Brown vs. Board of Education that "separate but equal" is unconstitutional and not truly equal. Why does this apply to race but not gender. Also, what about the boys who like to hang out with girls more than boys and vice versa. Are we to subject them to a life at school where they have few, if any, friends which inevitably leads to depression and even suicide for some of these teens. Also, I believe that school should not just be hard but should also be fun, a place where you learn but also a place where you develop social skills and discover a love of learning. Honestly, have you ever been in an environment where the subject is hard and not at all fun? Does that foster a love of the subject. Certainly not. Single-sex education in a step back in both education techniques and gender equality.

...is a great idea. A middle school in V.V. CA, near where I live, did it and is getting much better behavior out of boys who aren't trying to impress girls and participation out of girls who don't have to be embarrassed for being smart or not as smart.

If this isn't sarcasm, then this is the most hateful, obnoxious, rude, stupid thing I have ever read. Crawl out from under your rock and live in the 21st century among the rest of the evolved, compassionate human beings. YEESH.

My son goes to an all-boys school here in California. It is by far a good thing1 Girls are a big part of the distraction in schools for boys. My son doesn't worry about what he looks like in the morning, has no girls to impress during the day and stays focused during the school day.

Something that people also seem to be ignoring is that not everyone fits under the two gender system. There are plenty of people who may appear female, but identify as male or vise versa. If you split schools into two genders than you throw a lot of people into very crappy situations. Also, if the argument, as someone suggested, is that having mixed gender classes distracts people then you need to account for the homosexual crowd. It doesn't make sense to have people fill out a questionnaire on their sex and sexuality before going to school.

Also saying that "boys and girls learn differently, so they should have different classroom settings" is poor logic because there are a lot of different learning styles, some people learn best in a lecture environment and some people learn best by reading. If there were enough teachers in the world then maybe splitting classes that thin so that each style had their own class might make sense. Still it is important to note that a lot of learning in school, especially K-12, is social or achieved through social means.

"Should 'public schools be free' to segregate by sex?"

is the author seriously trying to position this as a question of freedom for schools? what about the freedom of the students to live and learn in a normal human environment? this smells more like a social policy in disguise than anything done in the name of education.

Hi Sal:

While I'll agree that girls probably aren't getting pregnant at school, I'll take mild issue with this:

What these girls need are parents that pay attention to what they are doing in their spare time.

If that's what the girls need, then that's certainly what the boys need, too. It takes two to tango, but often, it's only the girls that bear the consequences.