To be angry so many girls schools are going Co-Ed?

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Yet again it’s been proven girls do better in single sex schools (I have a son as well as a daughter so please don’t think I’m ’hating on boys’).

https://amp.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/12/girls-do-better-in-exams-at-all-girls-schools-than-mixed-research-finds

In my hometown growing up there were 4 girls schools. 1 grammar, 1 private, and 2 regular secondaries, meaning pretty much all parents regardless of background had access to single sex education for their daughters if they wanted it.

2 have announced their plans to go Co-Ed, with 1 already having done so, leaving just 1 (the grammar, so working class girls will be inherently disadvantaged). This seems to be a pattern across the country.

AIBU to be angry this is happening? Can’t girls have anything to themselves?

@OodlesPoodle You’re not listening. You’ve this fixed mindset that women in single sex education are actually in a convent and never interact with men. And nothing anyone says can make you wake up.

All being at a girls’s school really means is that you don’t have to put up with the most irritating things about teenage boys when you’re at school. Schoolgirls have brothers, fathers, friends, boyfriends to spend time with, they have also have male teachers in school.

The idea that this impacts in any way their ability to interact with men is simply erroneous.

My point is that it doesn’t need to be an issue at co-Ed schools either.

Of course I don’t know you I simply going on your posts on this thread.

Why you still making assumptions about me exactly?

Then why is it? Take a look at these:

https://thegirlsplayproject.com/

https://izajole.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40172-018-0069-4

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2021/01/19/study-men-speak-16-times-more-women-college-classrooms

Why are you making assumptions about girls schools given you have zero experience of them?

Indeed, and there often isn't.

You're assuming that too.
Not have attended one as a pupil most definitely does not mean I haven't experienced being in one.
You hadn't thought of that, had you?
Also, not having done something doesn't mean I cannot understandbthe implications of studies on it.

If you haven’t been a pupil, and you have no daughter, you have nothing to offer this thread.

Why don’t you just address the hundred studies I’ve posted? You seem absolutely determined to evade them and just post ‘mean to boys wah wah Co-Ed is wonderful wah’. You haven’t posted a single fact or experience of note just repeated the same nonsense over and over and over. Can you either add to the discussion or stop spamming the thread please

Good info here, for girls if they Are at a mixed school.

https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/schools-are-in-danger-of-breaking-the-law-on-sex-and-gender/

As already stated, you don't get to police who contributes this thread just because they're not in the same echo chamber as you.

No but I can tell you you’re ruining the chat for those that actually have something to contribute. Stop crying about echo chambers and actually back up what you’re saying rather than simply being purely outraged as a boy mum.

In single sex schools there’s no need to be mindful of treating girls and boys equally.

In my feminist girls’ school we had 8 compulsory O levels - including maths, physics and chemistry - the rest were our choice. And we all had to do computing and design and tech as well. They believed we must all be science literate.

I do think women should be encouraged to do STEM subjects because a. Some, like me, wouldn’t choose them naturally and b. The chauvinism of the STEM world and indeed the actual world runs deep

I looked at your studies (can you count, because you've definitely not posted hundreds?).
Do you want me to post links to the studies which clearly highlight how the education system itself is favoured toward how girls learn, or how teachers may even be more likely to award girls better grades?
Also, discounting your dubious conclusions isn't spamming. Stop misusing words.

Agree.

I think a lot of posts here are just jealousy that we want to foster a good environment for our girls. They’re naturally seen as the support humans of boys so the fact we’re ’taking them away’ is outraging people. They can jog on.

All the more reason for girls school then

Jealousy?
Please enlighten us on that?

Same here. All girls academic school, did brilliantly, went to a top uni and didn't do so well as it was such a culture shock. I was an only child, no brothers either.

I encouraged DD to go to a mixed school, same school as her brother and she wishes she went to an all girls school as the boys are annoying!!

Why?
Another thing you'll need to enlighten us on?

Probably because girls are constantly told they are at a disadvantage so they begin to believe it. It’s a self fulfilling prophecy to some extent.

Why do some schools manage to create at atmosphere where girls genuinely feel on a level playing field and yet others don’t? At primary level, my experience is that girls and boys happily played together. Girls happily joined in playing football with the boys for example. Boys happily took part in optional dance lessons. At secondary, if anything, it’s the girls who often have more to say in lessons!

I’m not saying that I disagree with single sex education. It probably suits some children (probably quieter girls for example). I’m saying that the demand for single sex education is decreasing for a reason. Many people don’t see a need for it. That’s why some single sex schools are becoming co-Ed. If they could fill all their places several times over and had huge demand there’d be no reason to change.

Teachers can’t favour girls if they’re away in their own schools! Removes sex based discrimination altogether. You’ve made my argument for me.

We all find people 'annoying', as evidenced by this thread, we have to learn to cope with that.
(I distinguish annoying from being bullied, just to make that clear).

Nope, youve actually proved my point.
You're so blinkered you don't even see it.

I don't think you need to be angry op. It's just market forces. Nobody wants them so they haven't got the numbers to stay open.