Girls - co-ed or single sex secondary?

[Cornygirl]

Just that really!?!

MN164. I am confused at your response.

You posted the following quote

"girls attending all-girls’ schools were less likely to be bullied than girls attending mixed schools."

With a link to evidence this quote as being factual data.

The data you provided did indeed state the above, however it also went on to say that "the level of variation in young people’s experiences of bullying that was attributable to differences in the schools attended was minimal".

In layman's term, being in a co-ed school or an all girls schools makes not an ounce of difference when it comes to bullying.

If it were me, I would jump on this and argue that girls schools are therefore better at shaping a girls character
It would certainly allow for a more interesting debate, rather than the same old, same old.

Yes, shock all round here at the result.

Vietnammark. Your comment about Richard Cairns caught my eye: "our girls outperformed every girls’ school in England this year at A-Level"
I emailed his school a few years ago to ask for the breakdown of results by sex as I was considering Brighton College or Roedean. I had always swallowed the mantra of girls doing better academically in single sex schools for all the varied reasonable reasons stated by the many posters on this subject. I was, however, quite taken aback by the results. BC was at the time (and still is) flying academically, being in the UK's top 20 by A level results. However, if all the BC boys' results were taken out of the equation, BC would have been four or five places higher in the league table. Roedean at the time were about 150th, although they are doing much better these days. I chose Brighton College and have no regrets. My DD is absolutely flourishing in every way. Favourite subjects? science, maths and dance.

So the girls at Brighton College outperformed the girls at Wycombe Abbey, St Paul's and North London Collegiate? I find that incredible. Though I do believe Brighton College to be a very good school. I would need to see all the data to believe it.