| In the olden days, boys and girls received | | | | bonding, optimize male character development |
| very different educations. They were | | | | and that males from low income and minority |
| segregated from each other, and pursued | | | | backgrounds especially profit from single |
| learning that was predetermined as | | | | gender Ohio Schools. |
| "appropriate" for their sex. While boys | | | | |
| studied subjects like Latin and French, girls | | | | The advantages of single-sex education for |
| learned to dance and do embroidery. Equal | | | | girls attending Ohio Schools are that they |
| education has been in place for a long time, | | | | receive expanded educational opportunities, |
| now, and has most certainly been a good | | | | custom-tailored learning and instruction and |
| change for students everywhere - both girls | | | | greater autonomy, especially in heterosexual |
| and boys. This is not a case of change for | | | | relationships. Of particular interest, in |
| change sake, but a necessity of progressing | | | | every age, girls in girls-only Ohio Schools |
| with the times. However, there is something | | | | classrooms are more likely to explore |
| to be said for educating our children in | | | | "non-traditional" subjects such as computer |
| same-sex groups. Ohio Schools are beginning | | | | science, math, physics, and woodworking. The |
| to institute same-sex schools, and have found | | | | same can be said for boys attending boys-only |
| remarkable results. | | | | classrooms; they are more likely to pursue |
| | | | classes in foreign languages, art, music, and |
| Middle school students attending Ohio Schools | | | | drama at one of the single-gender Ohio |
| may choose to go to one of the district's | | | | Schools. With the instinctual need to show |
| "Single-Gender Middle Schools". These Ohio | | | | off for the females removed through the |
| Valley Schools are research-based and are | | | | simple fact that there are no females to show |
| modeled on other effectively utilized | | | | off to, boys have more freedom to choose the |
| programs in various schools around the | | | | "less-macho" classes. |
| country. Some single-gender characteristics | | | | |
| that have been identified are a year-round | | | | There are detractors to the single-gender |
| balanced calendar, Summer Academy, expanded | | | | movement beginning in Ohio Schools. |
| school year, and mandatory uniforms. | | | | Someresearchers have suggested that the |
| | | | academic achievement in a single-sex setting |
| The main argument for single-gender Ohio | | | | hurts the benefits of coeducation. Since we |
| Schools is that they give students a strong | | | | do not go to work for single-gender |
| academic climate as well as reducing | | | | companies, it may not make sense to some to |
| distractions that are experienced by the | | | | educate our children this way. Unless your |
| presence of Ohio Schools students of the | | | | Ohio Schools child is planning to become a |
| opposite sex. | | | | nun cloistered off in a far away nunnery, she |
| | | | is going to have to learn to co-exist and |
| The benefits for both boys and girls | | | | work with males. In fact, many people agree |
| attending single-gender schools have | | | | that the experience of going to school with |
| commonalities as well as differences. Some | | | | members of the opposite sex makes it easier |
| research points out that Ohio Schools that | | | | for Ohio Schools kids to move on to the |
| have single gender programs are particularly | | | | "mixed" or coed environments of college and |
| beneficial for boys because they promote male | | | | the world of work. |