Hello Children,
The title says it all, don’t it?
There are some folks out here in REAL America what ain't afeard of "Separate But Equal" {Here}:
At the end of the 2008-09 school year, a Raleigh County middle school asked for the school board’s support in piloting gender-based classes with its sixth-graders.
Today, this pilot project will became a reality.
Sixth-graders at Independence Middle School will receive instruction in core subjects (math, science, social studies and history) separately.
Girls will be taught in one classroom, boys in another.
Independence Middle is the first school in Raleigh County to try gender-based education.
School board president Rick Snuffer says, “If it works, I’d like to go countywide with it.”
Leonard Sax, executive director of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education, spent Tuesday at Independence Middle conducting staff development with those who will be instructing the gender-based classes.
He held an informational session with the sixth-graders’ parents Tuesday evening.
“On average, the kids are going to do better. But what we’re going to do tonight is very important. You’ve got to engage and empower your parents,” Sax told the teachers Tuesday afternoon.
Sax says wealthy families shouldn’t be the only ones with the option to send their children to a private all-boys or all-girls school.
“We are the pro-choice voice in this debate,” he said.
“Kids are all different. We are not saying that single-sexed education is best for every child. What we are saying is that parents should have a choice.”
In terms of the success of gender-based education, Sax referenced Woodward Elementary School in Deland, Fla.
Thirty-percent of those students are doing better in single-sex classes, he said.
“By putting boys in an all-boys classroom, all of a sudden it’s cool to study. We live in a culture where a lot of boys think it’s not cool to write poetry. In an all-boys classroom, you can make it cool.
“Boys don’t want to be girls, and girls don’t want to be boys ... It narrows what you can do as a person. In an all-boys classroom and vice versa, kids can be themselves. You can eliminate group contrasts. It’s OK for girls to love computer science and engineering and it’s OK to boys to love poetry.”
Sax said the key to gender-based education is employing teaching strategies that simply won’t work in co-ed classrooms.
“Teach the same curriculum to the boys and the same curriculum to girls. But you have to teach it very differently, in a way that that engages boys and engages girls,” he said.
He also referenced the success of Kanawha County’s Anne Bailey Elementary School.
“We’re accustomed to seeing kids improve 30 or 40 percent in the single-sex classes,” Sax said.
At Anne Bailey, data suggest that boys are doing 300 percent better than they were doing in the mixed-gender classes.
In an interview with The Register-Herald Tuesday evening, Anne Bailey Elementary principal Ed Rider said gender-based classes made a significant difference.
“We had a significant gap in achievement between our boys and girls,” Rider said.
After hearing Sax speak at a conference, Rider got approval to pilot gender-based classes with his fifth-graders.
Since, the Kanawha County school has expanded it to grades K-5.
“The way you teach boys and girls is totally different,” Rider said.
“We’ve really had a great success with it. I think it holds a real opportunity for academic achievement. The discipline reduction is just a side benefit. I’m an advocate for it, and I’ve had very, very little opposition.”
There are 540 public schools offering gender-based classes across the country.
Independence’s sixth-graders will come together for co-ed-related arts classes (music, art and computers).
“In the math and English/language arts, the kids can focus on learning. And then in the music class they can come together and have that social interaction,” Sax said.
“I’m not totally persuaded on that point. I can make a good argument on single-sex music class. Nevertheless, many describe a very a good experience with single-sex in core classes and co-ed electives.
Sax founded the National Association for Single Sex Public Education in 2002.
Sweet Merciful Jesus!
That there school done seen a 300 PERCENT improvement?!
While Libs might demand to see "proof" of this right near-miraculous turnaround, us Christian-Conservatives are content to take their word for it. After all, it would tend to confirm our preconceived notions of gender, so why question it?
That’s right next door to us, so I can only hope that good Christian Leonard Sax and his Right Proper God-Fearing Teaching Method (TM) will soon make their way to the LIBERAL-INDOCTRINATION centers they call “public schools” here in Kentucky!
Course, you won’t never find no shortage of DEMONIC LIBERALS what are dead set against ANYTHING that threatens the EVIL ideals of egalitarianism {Here}:
In my previous post, you may have seen the name Leonard Sax highlighted. Though he has been instrumental in cramming single-sex classrooms down the collective throat of America, he's a bit put-off that Greene County is mandating only single-sex learning. I assume the reason for this is similar to that of Dr. Michael Behe's non-support of Intelligent Design during the Pennsylvania school board fight; exposure of this kind too early can derail thoroughly idiotic, pseudo-scientific policies.
Unfortunately, he isn't the only scientist wanna-be with political motives. This planet has had the misfortunate to be cursed with more of his ilk in the form of Louan Brizendine and David Brooks.
For one of the most comprehensive reviews on these fools as well as on gender (non)differences, please check out the following, which all hail from Language Log:
David Brooks, cognitive neuroscientist
Are men emotional children?
Of rats and (wo)men
Leonard Sax on Hearing
More on Rats and Women
The Emerging Science of Gendered Yelling
At least now us REAL American parents don’t got to blame ourselves no more for the failings of our schools!
No, sirree!
It’s the fault of GOVERNMENT for failing to recognize that GIRLS just ain’t got the aptitude nor the ability to compete with BOYS!
Hallelujah!
Course, that don’t rightly explain why other countries still whoop our behinds in math and science even though they got co-ed classes.
I’m sure you “SCIENTISTS” out there would cite that as evidence that Leonard Sax’s hypothesis don’t hold up to scrutiny.
To that I say, WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA?!
-Norma Jean
P.S. Pertinent to this here update as well as my promise {Here}, I’m still working on the next addition to the series Fallacies of Gender. It’ll likely be a mite longer since I been so busy lately stocking up ammunition and supplies in preparation of the coming RACE WAR!
P.P.S. I don't want to hear no nonsense of what parents are supposed to do if'n their child seems to learn better in a co-ed environment!
Even dumber, I also don't want no questions from you "Libtards" out there asking what a parent ought do if'n their daughter learns better from the "boy teaching methods," or vice versa!
Good Christian Dr. Sax done proved that ALL boys learn the SAME way, while all GIRLS learn the same way!
To suggest otherwise is an affront to POP CULTURE as well as to GOD HISSELF!!
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