Gender divide in schools

[Juno77]

This has come off the back of a thread, not a TAAT though.

It seems a lot of people on MN have children who have birthday parties and only invite children from school of the same gender.

My DS has always had mixed parties; when he complies his guest lists he seems to have a fairly even number of boys and girls, and he gets invited to leads of girls parties(he is 9).

There doesn't seem to be this gender divide that I keep seeing on MN.

So I wonder. Is this a parental influence? A school influence? Or just the luck of the class group you are in?

I agree it will impact them Juno. That's why I make a stand when I think it will be effective. I don't have a better school to send them to or I'd be trying. Where are you? Your school sounds lovely!

It is lovely!

We are in Scotland.

I've done a straw poll amongst friends this afternoon who have children at school, and they've all said the same thing, bar one who said her DD doesn't invite boys.

DS will be 11 this time and has done his invite list this week and it still has both sexes on it. However the school is rural and very small so there doesnt seem to be the boy girl divide.