Well, they did just fire their superintendent, so maybe Boston is looking to replicate that. Link (new window)

The school girl uniforms are not at all what I had hoped for. No chance for a pedo bear/Hansen sighting.

Are things that screwy in big cities that coed schools are being tossed aside?

And now the Bruins are better than the Red Wings.

DslainteC: And now the Bruins are better than the Red Wings.

Being a few points ahead of the Red Wings in the overall league standings while being a part of a weaker conference does not make the Bruins "better". You could say that if the Bruins win the cup, but they haven't done that yet.

Single sex schools are stupid. How are America's young'ns supposed to figure out how to get girls, if there aren't any around?

/Wants payment for headline

Nods in approval.

Did that website make anyone else's computer go apeshiat?

/hot
//the link, of course

As an educator myself I am opposed to same sex schools which are publicly funded. There is indisputable evidence that for some students (a small minority) same sex school are better. But the advantages for same sex school are heavily outweighed by the advantages-- social, behavioral, and intellectual-- of co-ed schools. People forget that there this a huge body of research and literature that demonstrates the advantages of co-ed education. We don't do same-sex education in America for good reason. Most of the world doesn't do same sex education for good reason.

Same sex education is just another fad that allows the adult "do-gooders" to masturbate in public at the expense of the minds of you people. Same as it ever was.

Fabric_Man: Did that website make anyone else's computer go apeshiat?

Yes it did. I just didn't want to hear everyone start talking about Firefox and Adblock since I am at my work computer. 4 pop-ups? REALLY?!?!

Approves

/image and weapons hot

they're going to hire OCP to manage their infrastructure as well?

I went to an all-boys (private) high school in Boston, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies...

Yup, Detroit means success, just ask (not so) Big 3. and the lion fans. even the air in Detroit smells like success, just ask the pod smoking panhandlers .........

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: Single sex schools are stupid. How are America's young'ns supposed to figure out how to get girls, if there aren't any around?


It's a gay conspiracy.

Yeah, because having males and females in the same school is what's wrong with education. Fix that, and everyone's test scores will magically go up and all will be well.

It's so simple. Like every solution.

I would absolutely hate going to an all boys high school. Most of my friends were girls in HS... I'd be lost without 'em

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: Single sex schools are stupid. How are America's young'ns supposed to figure out how to get girls, if there aren't any around?

I spent part of my school life in a all boys school and we tried to hit on the female teachers ;)

So is Boston's mayor going to start wearing a pimp hat and rolling the Navigator like Kwame?

Yes, let's set gender relations in this country back 70 years through gender segregation, I'm sure students will learn to cooperate and compete effectively with the opposite sex by pure intuition and what they read in magazines. Also, let's have separate schools for each race and sexual orientation because it's more comfortable being around people who are the same as you are. This will work well.

DslainteC: And now the Bruins are better than the Red Wings.

Whoa there chief. Slow your roll. Last time i checked, the Bruins were the only team in Boston who hadn't won anything recently.

That and GO WINGS!

I don't understand why some of you folks are railing against this.
They're talking about two schools, 1 for each gender, in a school system comprised of how many schools?

No one's snowflakes are being forced to attend.

If same sex HS education is beneficial to a very small group of students, why not provide a school to benefit precisely those students?

I wouldn't want my kids going to a same gender school but who am I, or you, to say what's right for every other kid out there.

Obama should move the Capital there. And free Kwame!

Boston is not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of success.

I went to a public high school, but took summer extra credit classes in a high school program at Barnard, an all-female college.

I loved learning in a single-sex atmosphere. Particuarly when I was 17 or so, it helped me keep my mind on schoolwork while I was in class (and save the boy craziness for after hours). I think generally, it was a healthier environment.

/although dances were AWKWARD

Detroit. Home of white rap.

There's an all girls high school around where I work. I'm not sure what these parents are trying to protect by sending them there, 'cause back when I was in high school, I wouldn't have touched them with a ten foot pole. Yeesh, ugly yetis.

/either that or guys dressed up as girls sneaking in

susler: I don't understand why some of you folks are railing against this.
They're talking about two schools, 1 for each gender, in a school system comprised of how many schools?

No one's snowflakes are being forced to attend.

If same sex HS education is beneficial to a very small group of students, why not provide a school to benefit precisely those students?

I wouldn't want my kids going to a same gender school but who am I, or you, to say what's right for every other kid out there.


The taxpayer who pays for it.

Mongo cut wood: Obama should move the Capital there. And free Kwame!

/Damn that, never busted! oops brb

Can'tLetYouDoThatStarFox: Yes, let's set gender relations in this country back 70 years through gender segregation, I'm sure students will learn to cooperate and compete effectively with the opposite sex by pure intuition and what they read in magazines. Also, let's have separate schools for each race and sexual orientation because it's more comfortable being around people who are the same as you are. This will work well.

Yeah. If certain people don't feel comfortable around other minorities or whitey, why should they have to go to school with them? Let's bring back separate but equal!!!!

/Freaking liberal-run school districts

So the Citadel was right when they tried to keep it all male ?

Jesus built my hybrid: Boston is not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of success.

I've got a feeling you're not fond of Boston...

/more than a feeling you might say...


Lollipop165: /although dances were AWKWARD

Pics or it didn't happen

worlddan: As an educator myself I am opposed to same sex schools which are publicly funded. There is indisputable evidence that for some students (a small minority) same sex school are better. But the advantages for same sex school are heavily outweighed by the advantages-- social, behavioral, and intellectual-- of co-ed schools. People forget that there this a huge body of research and literature that demonstrates the advantages of co-ed education. We don't do same-sex education in America for good reason. Most of the world doesn't do same sex education for good reason.

I went to an all-girls high school for my first two years... and have never been so miserable in my life. The last two, they combined the all-girls and all-boys schools and not only was I happier [I get along with males better than females], but my grades significantly improved as well, across the board. The first two years of high school, I failed math and science. The second? I passed them both, and even managed to get honor roll. It was definitely the environment change, even though the brothers who had always taught at the all-boys school treated the girls terribly because they had no idea what to do with us.

/Catholic school.
//The world's ugliest uniforms....

sewiusproductions: Jesus built my hybrid: Boston is not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of success.

I've got a feeling you're not fond of Boston...

/more than a feeling you might say...


Lollipop165: /although dances were AWKWARD

Pics or it didn't happen


Never been there, and I have nothing against Boston, Just saying that all cities have their own problems.

Detroit has failed at a lot of things. That doesn't mean that everything they do is wrong.

JohnnyC: Being a few points ahead of the Red Wings in the overall league standings while being a part of a weaker conference does not make the Bruins "better".

Maybe true. However, beating the Red Wings, as the Bruins have done in 2 out of 3 meetings with the Red Wings, does, in fact, make the Bruins "better".

Jesus built my hybrid: sewiusproductions: Jesus built my hybrid: Boston is not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of success.

I've got a feeling you're not fond of Boston...

/more than a feeling you might say...


Lollipop165: /although dances were AWKWARD

Pics or it didn't happen


Never been there, and I have nothing against Boston, Just saying that all cities have their own problems.

Detroit has failed at a lot of things. That doesn't mean that everything they do is wrong.

It was a music reference...

It really seems like the school is doing a bang-up job educating girls and preparing them for the real world:

"Without this school, my life would be nothing," said Manica, a senior. "All boys do is get you in trouble as far as with babies. . . . All you need is your books. That's what will get you through life."

That's all boys do?
And all you need is your books?

Yep, I see a great future in reality for this bright girl who is in no way lacking common sense.

serpent_sky: It really seems like the school is doing a bang-up job educating girls and preparing them for the real world:

"Without this school, my life would be nothing," said Manica, a senior. "All boys do is get you in trouble as far as with babies. . . . All you need is your books. That's what will get you through life."

That's all boys do?
And all you need is your books?

Yep, I see a great future in reality for this bright girl who is in no way lacking common sense.

Future leader of NOW.

/ it's more than a feeling
// they should just cool the engines

serpent_sky: It really seems like the school is doing a bang-up job educating girls and preparing them for the real world:

"Without this school, my life would be nothing," said Manica, a senior. "All boys do is get you in trouble as far as with babies. . . . All you need is your books. That's what will get you through life."

That's all boys do?
And all you need is your books?

Yep, I see a great future in reality for this bright girl who is in no way lacking common sense.

she sounds fat

/oblig

New tourism campaign:
"Detroit. We suck less than Boston"

ChrisP2006: I would absolutely hate going to an all boys high school. Most of my friends were girls in HS... I'd be lost without 'em

Sounds like prison

atlanta_ufo:

Future leader of NOW.

"No, really, we don't hate men. But really, all they do is get you in trouble with babies. Equality now!"

IMHO, Schools should be sex-segregated at grade 7, and uniforms required until then. I don't care if the kids go to the same physical building even, as long as the classrooms are sexually segregated ... and I mean teachers as well : women teaching girls and men teaching boys. I'd prefer schools that were really really physically separate (like two blocks apart), with coordinating socializing events.

worlddan
As an educator myself I am opposed to same sex schools which are publicly funded. There is indisputable evidence that for some students (a small minority) same sex school are better. But the advantages for same sex school are heavily outweighed by the advantages-- social, behavioral, and intellectual-- of co-ed schools. People forget that there this a huge body of research and literature that demonstrates the advantages of co-ed education. We don't do same-sex education in America for good reason. Most of the world doesn't do same sex education for good reason.


I attended an all-girl public high school and I couldn't agree with you more. Don't get me wrong, my school gave me a great education. I actually chose to go there because it was one of the better schools in my city. I also think some kids do benefit from that kind of environment. In my experience at an all-girl school, however, most fell into two camps:

A) Those like myself who were already studious and ambitious, but maybe a little introverted. We would have done well academically at any good school, but we missed out on most of that social interaction with the opposite sex and entered college not even having had many male friends. I was clueless about dating when I graduated and was rather intimidated by it (though I adapted well once I got started).

Case in point FTFA:
"Without this school, my life would be nothing," said Manica, a senior. "All boys do is get you in trouble as far as with babies. . . . All you need is your books. That's what will get you through life."

I probably sounded a lot like this ten years ago. Honestly parents would you rather your daughter think like this or have a healthy understanding of the need for balance in her personal and professional life? My little brother went to an equally good coed school, graduated near the top of his class and is now at Johns Hopkins but he has a girlfriend (no babies!) and confidence socially that I was still building at his age.


B) The more extroverted or those who knew boys from outside of school had the same problems as girls at any other school. Many seemed, if anything, more eager for male attention because they were isolated from it all day. At my school, guys from other schools around the city would leave early so that they could come down and watch my classmates strut around with their dress-code regulation skirts rolled up and their dress-code regulation blouses buttoned down at 3pm on the dot. I don't know the numbers for sure, but I don't think my high school did much better than any of the others in teen pregnancy.

I think it's fine to have same-sex education as an option for some students, but if/when I have kids I would probably encourage them to go to a normal coed school.

serpent_sky: I went to an all-girls high school for my first two years... and have never been so miserable in my life. The last two, they combined the all-girls and all-boys schools and not only was I happier [I get along with males better than females], but my grades significantly improved as well, across the board. The first two years of high school, I failed math and science. The second? I passed them both, and even managed to get honor roll. It was definitely the environment change, even though the brothers who had always taught at the all-boys school treated the girls terribly because they had no idea what to do with us.

/Catholic school.
//The world's ugliest uniforms....

I don't know...I thought my high school uniform was pretty cute. I actually wore it for Halloween a couple years ago and didn't get any complaints.

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the suburbs and loved it. That being said, I didn't really socialize with my classmates. I didn't have anything against them, but I had other friends in the city (male & female) that were more my speed.

But during school hours, it was great to not have the distraction of trying to impress the opposite sex and worrying about clothes, etc. For whatever reason, it worked for me.

/13 years of Catholic school
//Now just barely a wedding and funeral Catholic