Single Gender Schools

Brother Greg O'Donnell, the principal of Damien Memorial School (an all boys school in Honolulu) wrote an article that says that boys and girls ought to be segregated in schools.

http://starbulletin.com/2006/06/25/editorial/special.html

O'Donnell: For starters, the natural thing for boys and girls is to be extremely different, including the ways in which they learn.

Pablo: An average boy might learn and act differently from an average girl. But not everyone is average! Take a group of boys -- you'll find that the boys have different learning styles from each other! Same is true if you take a group of girls!

This isn't being politically correct. This is from observing my fellow students when I was a student, AND observing the students as I was a teacher!

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O'Donnell :From a classroom management standpoint, girls are easier to teach. There are, of course, other considerations, but the energy level of boys can overwhelm a teacher who's already tired.

Pablo: In the elementary level, boys do tend to be more rascal!

However, my observations in the middle school level shows both the boys and girls to be rascal.

There were even cases, when I was working 2 different middle schools, I could have a class of mostly boys, in which the class environment was laid back. However, in the same day, in the same school, with the same lesson plans, a class of mostly girls was worse. A lot of the girls were rude and sassy!

This doesn't happen all the time, but it happens enough to show a pattern!

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Some say that one-gender schools are good, in that students don't get distracted by the opposite sex. I say it's better that they learn to deal with those distractions early in life!

However, if the student was homosexual, the student would be distracted no matter what school he/she attends!