Girls schools with female teachers

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Can we go back in time, please, to the school I attended which was a school for girls (female kind only) with an all-female teaching staff?

Do such institutions still exist? In the light of pornography, rape culture, self-harm, ROGD, mixed-sex loos and changing rooms and on and on and on, do we need to say that coeducation has failed and that girls need their space and need to learn what it is to be a woman from women?

DD is at an all girls school with a mixed 6th form. Staff are mixed.

I like it. I wanted single sex education for DD but not to lock her away from everyday life.

There are still lots of single sex schools, but staff have always tended to be mixed; even back in the 1970's when I went to school. There were three male teachers, and that was fine. Good they were, too. The Head was female, though.

The sex of the teachers isn't the most important thing, the single sex space for the children is what makes the difference. Girls do so much better in STEM subjects when there aren't boys around.

I teach in a girls' school and I love it. Staff are mixed which I think is good. Provision of single sex schools seem to be massively area dependent though. Where I grew up the only single sex schools were private; I was very surprised when I moved to London and there were so many state single sex schools. I guess more rural areas can't sustain them.

I work in a girls' comprehensive. Mixed 6th form, mixed staff. It's brilliant.