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?

I've reported it.
There's been some real to and fro on here but I think that poster has actually just shown their true colours. Not clever.

Gasp

Swoon

MN have deleted your 'humour'.

If you don’t like girls schools, send your girls to co Ed - simples

I’ll recover 😊

@Ambergrease part of me understands why you feel that way and part of me feels like we have to keep fighting so that all children get an equal chance to thrive.

The Tates are being investigated against dreadful crimes against women- and you think that’s funny. We have differing tastes in humour.

Some people ARE saying that though, not with those exact words, clearly. There are loads of posts criticising boys and lumping them all together as bad, while minimising issues girls can create.

At least we know what sort of person is behind that username now. I won't be interacting with her anymore.

Exactly. The bullying my dd had from girls lead to a suicide attempt. Girls can be brutal as can boys. In my experience single sex schools exacerbate it in both.

It’s Ken in Irish

No they’re not, that’s just your defensive insecurity.

I don’t need to pop up saying NABALT every time teenage boys behaviour is analysed.

Kein Liebeslied means 'No love song'.

Aw that’s sad

I would love for (non-fee paying) parents to have a genuine choice.

We have girls schools here but they are all Grammar and church. So most girls don't get the opportunity. I was lucky to be able to get my DD in to the church girls school. It was the only school that would meet her needs.

Is there data around post education years for women who attended girls schools? I ask because I only know 2 women who attended girls schools and both were pregnant by 21

They are saying that. I and others have seen it too.

So you say they are, Kein says they’re not with those exact words.

If they are, please point to a post that says: 'all boys are bad and we just need to keep our perfect girls away from them' or words to that effect.

I’d like to draw your attention to the general online tendency that when women or girls are being discussed in any context someone comes along with: won’t someone think of the menz.

On a thread about female education here we are talking about boys.

Because others are banging on about all boys being so bad girls need to be educated away from them. That is pretty much what the whole thread is about🙄

Of course we are! Because girls schools’ aim is to keep girls away from boys, so boys’ behaviour is integral to the discussion. Were you trying to be clever with that comment?!

It's German, not Irish.

Of course boys will come into a discussion about why to educate girls separately from boys.