Does grammar school change girls?

She’s talking rubbish. Normally single-sex schools have a sister/brother school so have joint discos, music and theatre productions and in the Sixth Form will often allow students from the other school to do subjects their school does not do. You don’t need to worry about your DD!

My daughter and my sons all went to single sex grammar schools and I can assure you they all have very healthy friendships with the opposite sex!
Their schools were along the same road in our town and they all mixed ,went to the park after school and met up at weekends.
I have absolutely no regrets about their schooling.

@Narwhalelife
My DDs went to girls’ boarding schools. They meet boys! Friends have sons. Neighbours have sons. Their friends at school have brothers. They go to parties and mix. All sorts of other clubs snd activities for day pupils are mixed.

My old grammar had its fair share of boy mad girls. The difference was the boys were readily available!!

I'm going to assume a touch of hyperbole there.

I went to an all girls grammar and had no problem finding boyfriends.
I'm now happily married 😊

Same. Dd is also at an all girls grammar and loves it. No problems fraternising with boys. Single sex education has all sorts of advantages for girls in my view. and it was an active choice for us. Lots will disagree, but hey, there are lots and lots of co-ed schools if you want that.

read my thread from a few days back OP!

Co-Ed or Single sex?

I went to an all girls grammar and had no problem finding boyfriends.
I'm now happily married 😊

I went to an all girls grammar, am an only child and had no male cousins. All the girls at my school socialised with the boys from the boys grammar in the same town - parties and so on. I had a perfectly normal attitude to boys! I've no idea what your friend is on about!

My dd is in a co-ed school, but she knows quite a lot of people from the local single sex schools. Her perception is that the girls from single sex are mostly fine around boys - maybe less likely to have close friends who are boys, but not obsessed or silly about them and otherwise completely normal around them. The boys in single sex schools, however, seem to be a rather different matter - according to dd, they are either incredibly shy and unable to talk to girls at all or else they are incredibly cocky and assume that the girls fancy them! NB these are boys from one school and not a scientific sample!

We have always preferred co-ed, and wouldn't have ever gone for single sex, but I can see that it probably suits some kids much better. I'm sure that any who are a little awkward around the opposite sex probably get over it fairly quickly!

I went to an all girls grammar and met boys at activities outside school: sports clubs, drama group, St John's Ambulance etc. I also remember going out in groups with brothers and their friends (ie both my brothers and my friends' brothers.

Don't worry OP - as long as your DD has the opportunity to socialise with boys outside school it will be fine. I went to an all-girls school from 11-16 and it really wasn't an issue. My boys go to all-boys schools and tbh I'm glad they aren't being distracted. A friend with a DS at a co-ed prep school, aged 13, has a girlfriend, which I'd be much more concerned about!

Half the girls in my grammar school had had an abortion by the end of year 9 so I assume there was some fraternising going on!

Your colleague is bonkers, sorry.

What a strange idea. I went to an all girls school and I am normal.....well normalish......I went on to an all girls college, not because they didn't take boys but because it was a very female profession then (Occupational Therapy) some of us had been in mixed sex schools, some not and honestly you wouldn't have known the difference.

Sounds as if your friend has just read Michelle Magorian's Coming Home. (1940s)
Where they strictly policed the sex apartheid.

@Narwhalelife I went to an all girls school. Turned out just fine as did my friends!

Sometimes I wonder what people imagine single sex schools to look like 😂

It may be the case that the subset of girls who are liable to have some sort of problem socialising with boys will have problems regardless of whether they go to a single or mixed sex school, though perhaps it might take somewhat different forms.

I went to a girls school, not grammar like like PPs I am normal! Met boys walking to and from school and just hanging out on street corners

Oh FFS tell your colleague to fuck off. What a load of rubbish.

Research shows girls do better at all girl schools. They can learn without boys dominating the classroom and, more importantly, not be subjected to sexualised language and harassment (that can occur in some co-Ed schools).

I'm sure your DD has males around her in some capacity (fathers, brothers, cousins, family friends etc). She's not in some weird vacuum.

I really to despair at the shit people come out with at times.

I went to a private all-girls primary, and an all-girls grammar for secondary. I'm afraid to say that I was completely silly about boys from
Y9 until I started Y12. Possibly because I'd never known any boys so they were the cool unknown in my inexperienced eyes.

As a teenager, I was quite the "pick me" girl.
I grew out of it.

She'll be fine. I went to an all girls grammar and it was great that there were no boys in the class. But there was a boys school nearby so we made friends with them on the bus or walk home, or we met boys out and about in town.

I went to a girls school. Everyone is normal about boys!!! Literally thousands of people go to girls schools. They might even be friends with boys or have brothers!!