To think that the state should offer single sex education as part of parental choice?

[KTheGrey]

Everyonesinvited.uk states as fact that there are three sexual assaults in primary schools reported to police every day (2016 figures), and that 9/10 girls had received unsolicited images (2021 from Ofsted). The Attainment 8 data analysis by gsa.uk (2019) shows an over 10% average higher point score by girls in girls' schools than by boys in boys' schools and over 20% higher average point score than all students in co-ed schools. A 2018 Queensland University study showed girls from single sex education emerged more confident. Many studies have shown they are more likely to engage with STEM at a higher level.

Should the state admit that it has failed in its primary duty of care in keeping girls safe, (as well as promoting every child's chances of getting their best results from school) and start providing single sex options to parents?

Shouldn't parents teach them that? I never did needlework at school, my mum taught me how to sew on a button and do repairs!

Girls do far better in single sex schools. They are also safer.

Completely agree. Crack down on the problems presented rather than avoiding them and worsening the problem by creating groups of young people who haven't worked with and spent time around the opposite sex. Unless we're talking about also having single sex universities and jobs it doesn't make any sense at all.

Certainly I found the boys who went to single sex schools much more sexist than those who didn't.

I give you Eton...

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41076842.html

Mine did a bit of both at primary level.
I don't really care if it's needlework for all or needlework for none the point is if there are boy schools and girls schools or boys streams and girls streams or boys classes and girls classes both sexes need to get the same opportunity not have regressive stereotypes thrust upon them.
It's love poetry and war poetry for all not one for girls and the other for boys.

I agree. That's the point.

Because many parents are not able to do these things - once it got round I could sew I was inundated with requests for buttons, hems, guide badges and repairs

I think it's a really useful skill. Perhaps nowadays parents could look on YouTube for guidance about such practical matters.

Not really, unless you're rich.

I'm not able to sew. My parents didn't teach me and neither did school. I mean, I know the basics but I'm very bad at it and don't get the practice to get better!

My DD, though has learned to sew at school and is better than me. I'm really glad she learnt that at school. She has really enjoyed Textiles.

I personally didn't see the need for single sex in Primary because my DD's Primary had good behaviour. It was all the fights and rowdy behaviour at the mixed Comps I wanted to avoid for my DD.

School nurses still exist. They tend to work over a number of different schools.

Most of the private schools are mixed in my city - just one girls school. But the single sex grammars and church schools are very much in demand.

But that's my point...most of the country doesn't have grammars.

Oh of course that's an excellent idea. Far more pressing than the fact we don't have enough teachers for key subjects. Or that lots of schools are crumbling.

Yes, I know. What I'm saying is they're not all turning co-ed as there is no demand for single sex. There very much is.

I like the idea of dividing for some and core lessons but mixing for others

Why? Why core?

Did I? Where was that?

Sorry I meant a PP not you OP.

I am raising the idea that parents should have the choice. There won't be more children brought into existence by having single sex schools, so you don't need more schools. Anyway, there are going to be so many more teachers in a year's time we'll have to build new to give them something to do.

If you don't have more schools you have to have longer journeys. I wouldn't want our option to attend a walkable to school removed and replaced with the next nearest one - 9 miles away without a minimum of free, reliable, dedicated school buses. Why should I have to stump up over a tenner a week in bus fares per child for unreliable public transport.

Among teachers - anecdotally - Ireland is considered to have much higher educational standards than many parts of the UK.... as well as a higher proportion of single sex schools. Not necessarily causation but this article doesn't disprove it.

The Taliban is a militant group so strongly opposed to female education that they have banned it. I think you may be a bit mixed up.