Do you think it's BU

[Lloyd45]

To think it'a a good thing to segregate boys and girls at a certain age

www.theguardian.com/education/2017/oct/13/islamic-school-gender-segregation-unlawful-court-of-appeal

I find that to be a very odd ruling, as reported. Surely by those standards all single sex schools are discriminatory? It reads as though the school is merely operating 2 schools in one building. It doesn't describe any practices that appear to discriminate against one or other sex, both seem to be treated equally.

Why when my kids were at school the senior school in the area that had the highest teen pregnancy rate was the local catholic girls high,

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Why when my kids were at school the senior school in the area that had the highest teen pregnancy rate was the local catholic girls high,"
Yeah, right. Course.

Well, it's hardly going to be the boys' school, is it?

It’s an interesting school that has had poor ofsted for a few years now, mainly because it didn’t teach girls very much at all... I used to work in a feeder school of it.

I am not a fan of single sex education on the whole but as long as parents know that is what they are signing up to then why is it ok in some circumstances not others? The woman from ofsred I saw interviewed before was saying this School segregating was wrong because it doesn’t give young people an accurate representation of society - but by the same thinking neither do single sex schools surely?

FAkenameforthis if they're not teaching the girls much that seems a better cause for the discrimination ruling than just segregation

Sorry, I meant they had poor ofsted reports because of not teaching girls as much. I think they’ve begun to change stuff now, but it’s definitely run as segregated students rather than two separate schools.

Does that mean the girls are treated as lesser equals than the boys?
I am quite a fan of all girls schools as they seem to achieve better without boisterous boys around.

I think the issue here is that it claims to be/is a mixed school. By completely segregating the sexes it fails to do what it says on the tin.

But it also took me only a couple of minutes on the website to find the details of the segregation so I would imagine it is pretty well known amongst those who pick it.