Good god, not a voluntary education program with possibly profound benefits!!!

Also: Girls have cooties. EEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Heathen_Dave circle circle dot dots; he has his cootie shot.

Great, and now when some boy cries because he wanted to listen to classical and couldn't catch the ball when thrown to him he can learn to shoot guns at his classmates to prove his maleness. Way to go Einstein, what's next..."Girls of African descent need special classroom because biological they are different from girls of European descent."?

You know what needs to be done to make it easier for children to learn and teachers to teach? Smaller classes, teachers are spread too thin and that is why they have to yell to get boys attention and girls will be able have a better atmosphere in which to study science (Which they can apparently only understand when it's applied to girly things?)

Since that's not entirely possible I would say that at the very least the type of classroom environment should not be so "Role specific" instead of kinesthetic learns interacting with a random arbitrary object like a ball (unless it's a sphere in geometry class) why not introduce them to strange novelty like a map in history class. It's something that you interact with and still retain information.

I have to say, as both a teacher (who is awesome and uses a balanced approach to try to reach students of all learning styles) and as the girl who needed to be yelled at and given physical activities in order to learn, this is a bad idea for most students.

Yes, boys and and girls are different, in general. However, it has been shown that girls can benefit just as much from the physical lessons, and boys from a little soft-spoken instruction. The key, as people have said, is to offer a balance in your curriculum.

I also agree with the idea that smaller class sizes and more teacher support is a good idea. Duh.

I think this approach is more harmful than helpful - because it relies on fitting some square pegs into round holes instead of just offering different holes. If you expect all your students to learn the same way, you won't differentiate - and there is no way you're going to get the Stepford classroom, no matter how segregated it is. This means that no matter how "alike" your students are, they will not all respond to the exact same things - since you have to differentiate, anyway, you might as well keep things the way they are and change your approach.

I fear that this will become a trend, though.

TheFox refuses to teach a class that is segregated in any way, and even thinks that sex ed should be coed. She was always more interested in the boy parts, anyway.

My daughter would be seriously pissed if she wasn't able to get in on the skateboard-taking-apart math class... maybe I should tell her to shut-up and go play with some Barbies

But did you get your HPV shot?

Oh wait, is that a strictly Canadian joke right now?

Since it's been physically proven that boys do not hear as well as girls, (o really? Gosh I did'nt know that.)Chadwell suggests that teachers of all-boys classroom utilize microphones. In comparison, teachers in all-girl classes say they have learned to speak more softly and refrain from yelling. This is because "[girls] can take yelling more personal than boys."

All righty, I can say this is true. I teach 3 year olds. The boy's are so busy building lego's and stabbing each other pirate style, why would they want to listen? Hell they are having to much fun. The girls are indeed hollering in the kitchen center as to who is playing what role. No one is crying over being yelled at either. It is common. The best approach for me to get the boy's attention is to role play with them. Then I say "commercial" stop, do some work and then go back to playing. This worked for the boys. The girls, well they love to sit and learn but yes are loud. If simply things are introduced at this age, hopefully when in elementary some habits will have been formed. I would like to say though that early chid care can be hard on children and become burned out even before they are 6. This is especially true with boys.

From what I understand it is voluntary. Not for the kids to choose but the parents.

Man, I would have been fucked over in this way. Seriously fucked by this style of teaching. I have always interacted better with girls than with boys, and learned in ways that are often prescribed as "feminine". What the fuck would I have done here? Would I be considered a bad student because I didn't learn in a masculine fashion?

The problem is not only social conditioning, which is a step backwards, the problem is also generalizations. Which, of course, is already an epidemic in education.
Boys and girls have different styles of learning? PEOPLE have different styles of learning.

It is when they are paying for it with my money.

The claim that this is sexist is accurate but not defamatory; I don't think anyone's going to argue that boys and girls think along the same lines, or that men and women have the same body builds. Completely ignoring the obvious because it would be considered "sexist" is just as damaging as negatively discriminating along gender lines.

Well, I think it would be important to Consider at what phase of education they are applying this, Middle school.

I think this should be applied to Elementary School Primarily. As Part of Px Generation, I was drugged up to the gills with every ADD/ADHD medicine they could throw at me and my parents because I was "Too Fidgety and Read while the teacher was talking" also because my grades were suffering. Remarkably the drugs did not do much to help and if anything made things worse for me socially but they kept it up because the slightest fluctuation in my grades indicated it must be working, In fact I needed More Medicine according to the dozens of Teachers and doctors Who were ecstatic to have this new Panacea for all excitable children.

Now, Completely Clean of Prescription drugs I've been doing research into just what those little yellow, white and blue pills I was taking were. and I discovered Just what was going on in my head. I could go on and on about how the pills fucked me up but thats another topic. What's important here is how a poor education system messed up my psychosis and my childhood

Now to the part that is relevant to the conversation

Young boys Typically need 5-6 recesses a day to keep focused in class, otherwise they get fidgety. Fidgeting is often an symptom of intelligence. and outside Reading during class is a sign of understimulation. As for my Poor grades, I have Dysgraphia, My mind can't convey the fine motorskills of writing to my hands. And teachers(except in math) typically couldn't be bothered to interpret my attempts at the written word and just graded me on how I acted during class. Due to that and a Speech impediment(Which Is now gone! Woo!) They'd liken me to the protagonist from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime had that book been written yet.

Now if I were in a more specialized school perhaps one that had computers and class schedules more beneficial to me and other little children like me I would have been happier and more successful.

I'm arguing a bit further than the segregation of boys and girls, but developing a system to identify the differences in each child and apply an educational system that helps them the most.

A lot of the negative idea of this is that it's being called "Segregation" I prefer to think of this as Specialization

Sorry for the Rant. Once I start on how Elementary School Sucked I can't stop.