Gym class is less stressful now, too
John Miller of the National Review reports that the Department of Education has cleared the way for more single-sex schools, as long as the plans for such schools is couched in the language of affirmative action, rather than parental choice. Administrators at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Seattle have already experimented with separate classes for boys and girls, because so many of their boys were being suspended for behavioral issues. They've discovered that not only did the boys' behavior problems decrease, their test scores increased. The girls, who were doing just fine on tests to begin with, continued to do so. All of the classes at this school are now single-sex, but under the current civil rights laws, once the problems (suspensions) have been corrected, the school may have to return to coed classrooms, which may have helped cause the problems in the first place.