girl's schools

That's awful, berries.

My experience was nothing like that.

My DD is at a girls grammar which has science, technology and language specialisms. The 'girls cant do science/maths' myth doesn't exist in this environment. It gets excellent academic results but also does seem to produce confident young women. They hold events with female role models (Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnett during science week, for example). So far (she's only in yr8) they don't seem to have undue pressure, and her class seems remarkably devoid of bitchiness.

i attended an all girls school and mine was a horrendous academic hothouse of pressure, eating disorders and bitchiness.

i would never inflict the same on my dd.

i did come out with cracking academic results but the low self esteem and eating disorders which it also created havent been worth it IMO

I don't relly get the question either, since you're asking if they're something many of them already are.

Do you really mean - are they they are a good option, long-term (i.e. their benefits continue well beyond a pupil's actual schooling) for girls?

I went to an all-girls school and loved it. School was for me and my friends, for learning, for being ourselves. I know, with hindsight, that I would have had a very, very different experience at a co-ed school. If you'd asked me at the time whether I would have wanted to be schooled with boys I'd have probably said yes, but I'm so glad I wasn't. School was a very un-fraught with teenage/sexual angst for us, and so much the better for it.

I have identified as a feminist for as long as I can remember. Whether the two are linked, I don't know.

Although you do get men teaching in girls schools.

They are pretty much by definition powerful female only spaces, as well, I'd have thought.

There has been a thread about this before and consensus IIRC was that female only schooling provides girls with more choice in what they study and confidence in themselves.

I don't see why they wouldn't be centres of academic excellence, as cogito points out.

Clearly many girls' schools are already centres of academic excellence Stupid question.