Evidently in Charleston County and elsewhere in the state, administrators and teachers feel unable to provide single-gender classrooms without the guiding hand of and handouts from the SC Department of Education. That's the conclusion drawn from the decision to drop those classrooms at Morningside Middle School in the Charleston County School District.
"Principal Stephanie Flock said leaders at the public school made the decision to drop its single-gender programs this school year after prolonged dwindling support from the S.C. Department of Education, which used to provide free training and curricula for such initiatives."
Training? Curricula? Give me a break! That has got to be the silliest excuse I've ever heard.
Flock thinks her staff needed more professional development to teach single-gender classes. Wouldn't you love to know what that instruction consists of? Yes, classroom dynamics do change when the preteen opposite sex is absent: students are less worried about what the opposite sex thinks.
"Morningside created its ARMS Academy for boys and EXCEL Academy for girls in 2009 amid a golden age of state support for the practice." According to former State Superintendent Jim Rex, "results" in single-gender classrooms have been "mixed."
How ridiculous! The positive results to girls' and boys' confidence can't be measured. How about behavioral patterns? Apparently to our local and state educrats, academic results are the only thing that matters.
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if you put a child in a single sex school it will be hard for them to learn how to communicate and interact with the opposite sex. it will be harder for a child to find a job since most jobs are mixed sexes. sure, in a coed school a child might be distracted by someone who they think is cute. but same could go for a single sex school! why do you think single sex schools are better?
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