Dick's Guide to WHY WOMEN MUST STAY AWAY FROM GIRL'S SCHOOLS AND ALL GIRL CLASSES

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STAY AWAY FROM GIRL'S SCHOOLS AND GIRL'S ONLY CLASSES

A recent Report has shown that Single-Sex Schools and classes are Not the Best, now that educators have been spent years experimenting with America's Students.

Removing boys from the classroom fails to improve girls' performance in school even though it leaves them more confident, according to a new study that will appear about March 12, 1998 from.the American Association of University Women.  It comes six years after the group asserted that girls were receiving an inferior education in the nation's public schools.  That sparked illogical interest in all-girls' schools and girls-only math and science clases. (Apparently someone blamed the girl's poorer performance on males, rather than public school teachers.) This silly misinterpretation caused some public schools in New York, Virginia, Maine, New Hampshire, Illinois and California to create single-sex classes or girls-only schools.

The AAUW surveyed dozens of studies on single-sex education and claimed girls prefer single-sex education and report increased confidence and improved attitudes about math and science, but they do not show a measurable improvement in academic skill.

Janice Weinman, executive director of the Washington-based group admitted "What this report says is that single-sex education is not the silver bullet.  We went in with an open mind, and what the research shows is that boys and girls both thrive when the elements of good education are there, elements like smaller classes, focused academic curriculum and gender-fair instruction.''

Educators in California quickly responded to their waste of $3 million spent last year on single-sex education for both sexes, saying all-girl classes let students learn without fear of ridicule.  (How come these enlightened educators did not think about the outcomes for boys?)

``What needs to be tested is their self-esteem and that can't be measured,'' math teacher Pam Belitski of Anacapa Middle School in Ventura, Calif., said in today's USA Today.  Others who had been toiling to screw America's youth onto the bed of political correctness were quick to defend the indefensible.

A research professor at New York University, Diane Ravitch, questioned the new study, ``Separated by Sex: A Critical Look at Single-Sex Education for Girls,'' by saying that it simply didn't matter if women didn't do better in math.  What mattered is how the woman students feel.  "Clearly this is an attempt (perhaps by Right Wing conservatives of those damn Christains -- or the reds or the jews or the Ku Klux Klan) to stop the public school single-sex experimentation,'' she said told The New York Times. "And I think those experiments are a good thing.'' (She didn't mention if she would pay for the experiments).

The AAUW's original study found that boys and girls begin school with equal skills, but that girls fall behind by high school, particularly in math and science. The original report found girls faced routine discrimination by teachers, textbooks and male students.  Unfortunatley for the experimenters and the young women they experimented upon, there is some other cause for women's difficulties in math and science.  

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