| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Other local secondaries | |
| Posted by: | Vikesh Sodha | |
| Date/Time: | 01/11/05 11:07:00 |
| The trouble is that some schools do make their children reflective of society but only the worst aspects of it. The evidence suggests that both girls and boys do better when separated. Having been at co-ed schools myself from 4 to 18 I can well believe this. Children will mix outside school hours so I don't think they become 'unreflective of society' unless their parents have chosen that way for them in which case forcing them into a mixed school wouldn't be much help anyway. I think what people are generally looking for is a school system in which the aim is not to mould children into what the Government or the Local Education Authority thinks they should be but where schools reflect the values of parents and which achievement, discipline and standards are ranked above political correctness and shallow 'inclusiveness'. The idea of being inclusive in our current state system really seems to boil down to 'we'll let anybody in' and not having any minimum standards of behaviour to ensure that a small number of pupils don't disrupt the education of everyone else. |