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  • For all of you sold on ss education, what are the benefits in your opinion?

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    02.07.09, 08:51 AM [ Flag ]

    • The shyer girls don't get intimidated by boys, and get used to seeing/being leaders. Statistically, higher retention of ss-educated girls in math and science professions.

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      02.07.09, 09:03 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • For K-8, an all male atmosphere is more relaxed and flexible for ds's. They're allowed to move around more. Male sense of humor is shared and accepted. Assigned reading and books purchased by school library are geared to their interests. They're free to risk making fools of themselves, like flubbing campaign speeches from nerves, and receive rousing applause for showing courage. For 7th and 8th graders, the absence of girls allows ds's to relax about how they look and act at school. The list goes on. We've lived in several cities and applied to ss schools only.

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      02.07.09, 12:14 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • Also, allows boys who are interested in art, drama, music, etc... to do those things without being told "that's what girls do." Plus, as mother of 3 ds and aunt of 4 girls, I can say without a doubt, in those early years, girls are much smarter than boys.

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        02.09.09, 11:17 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • You sound like a St. B parent. ;)

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        02.09.09, 11:17 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • I attended a tt ss and had a great experience. girls were editors of newspaper & yearbook, prez of student body, and had unlimited opportunities for leadership. we were focused on learning without distraction. We also had ample opportunities to interact with our brother school and boys in general so we weren't uncomfy around boys. I love dit an I was a boy-crazy teen, but for me school was for learning. All that being said, I'm not sure I'd make the same choice for my dd. But she's only 2, so I'm not there yet.

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      02.07.09, 02:01 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • Nothing against the ss schools but at the tt coed school I went to (25 years ago mind you), the editor of the paper and yearbook was usually female as was the student body president half the time. And it certainly never felt like the girls were not comfortable around boys. So, I kind of object to the generality -- that said, I certainly think there may be a type of girl that would thrive in ss and would be open to any arguments about how different genders learn differently, etc. But I always found the whole leadership, confidence, distraction thing more rhetoric than anything else.

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        02.07.09, 02:49 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • np - It's still the same now. Lots of girls in leadership roles at coed HS. As for science, among this year's 4 Intel finalists from NYC, 2 are girls from Stuy and Bronx Science (and 2 are boys from the same schools).

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          02.07.09, 04:07 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • ditto

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          02.07.09, 04:17 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • Boys learn a lot more kinetically, especially in the early years. The SS boys schools we visited seemed to have a lot more movement in the classroom, a lot more hands on activities, and a great, great deal more acceptable fidgeting.

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          02.09.09, 11:26 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
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