Re: Student diversity at Harris Academy East Dulwich

[Cedges]

Curmudgeon - I appreciate your point about not assuming what you'd choose but as far as I am concerned, its got absolutly nothing to do with the academic provision of a school - its about the social skills and environment. I think I'd rather my kid went to a slightly worse school academically providing it was co-ed.

[alice]

academically girls do better in single sex schools and boys in mixed.

[newboots]

That's just statistics though isn't it Alice? I thought I was in favour of co-ed education until my daughter went to an all girls secondary. Now I realise that there are great advantages to being in an all female environment for her, and it would be sexist of me to think that there might not be similar advantages for boys in boys schools. For a start they aren't constantly reminded that they don't do as well as the girls!

[James Barber]

Hi alice,

I understood that a higher proportion of single sex schools were selective.

[Curmudgeon]

newboots Wrote:

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> That's just statistics though isn't it Alice? I

> thought I was in favour of co-ed education until

> my daughter went to an all girls secondary. Now I

> realise that there are great advantages to being

> in an all female environment for her, and it would

> be sexist of me to think that there might not be

> similar advantages for boys in boys schools. For a

> start they aren't constantly reminded that they

> don't do as well as the girls!

From http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/shared/get-file.ashx?id=493&itemtype=document which is based on cohorts born in 1958 and 1970

conclusions can be summarised as follows:

? Girls at single-sex schools were substantially more likely than their co- educated peers to achieve a high level of examination success at age 16, but boys were neither significantly advantaged nor disadvantaged in terms of overall examination attainment by attending single-sex schools.

? There was no significant impact of single-sex schooling on the level of later educational attainments for either sex.

? Single-sex schools were associated with attainment in gender atypical subject areas for both boys and girls.

[Cedges]

School isn't just about educational achievement though!

[caz6868]

well said