While brainstorming for this blog, I wanted to look into the rules and regulations surrounding single sex educations. How do public schools continue to receive funding if the state does not support such experiments in the classroom setting. I found an article written in the New York Times that talks about how George Bush really made a push for these things to be reconsidered in the public school system.
Many educators have wanted this sort of change for some time. This movement was considered a “the most significant policy change…barring sex discrimination in education of more than 30 years” (Schemo). This law that had been in the works for almost two years will allow single sex school as long as the enrollment is completely voluntary and makes “substantial quality available for members of the excluded sex” (Schemo).
It seems the only real problem that arises from this sort of movement is the conflict with Title IX, which bans sex discrimination in education in physical education classes or contact sports. Another concern that some civil rights and women’s rights movements have is that this will open the door for “re-instituting official discrimination in school,” while others would argue that is goes hand it hand with the No Child Left Behind law (Schemo).
I think that if a school district decides that this is the right route to ensure the best education possible I would agree with single sex education. Personally, I went to a coed private school but who knows I may have done better at a single sex school. Maybe girls would have been more willing to try harder in school without the distractions from boys. I think if it works better than public schools should have the same opportunities to create single sex schools.
-Rachel
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/education/25gender.html?ref=singlesexeducation&_r=0
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