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...usual, the gender police have arrived on the scene with much aplomb but with little information. The criticism that several public schools—especially in New York City—have elicited over the past year for their decision to separate middle-school classrooms by gender is based on a body of unfounded assumptions, and, if anything, these schools should be praised for creating an educational environment that will enable early adolescents to learn with as few unnecessary distractions as possible...
...While it is true that arbitrary segregation based on gender is inappropriate and unjustified, the facts of this particular educational initiative are more nuanced. While these schools do separate boys and girls, it is unfair to say that they “segregate” students, for any student wishing to learn in a coeducational setting always has the option to opt out of the program. Also, it should be noted that such separation exists only in middle-school classrooms and, for that matter, only in certain subjects. The schools themselves are not separated, and students are still afforded normal...
...which they need not worry about the way they appear to members of the opposite sex. By surrounding students with others undergoing the same bizarre transformation, single-sex classrooms provide an atmosphere as conducive to self-exploration and self-understanding as to undistracted learning, an essential component to gender relations of any kind...
...claim that these few years spent apart might hinder a boy’s ability to relate to a girl, and vice versa, once he or she reaches “the real world.” But it must be understood that schools alone are incapable of determining gender relations. When schools segregated men and women before, such segregation was not the reason that men were allowed to feel superior to women or that women were taught to feel inferior to men. The sexism of the past stemmed from innumerable sources within society as a whole, and the schools...
...studies reify gender stereotypes: women get their hearts broken through sadness; men "break" their hearts (via heart attack) through anger. But both studies suggest that men and women have a common interest in understanding that some causes of cardiac disease - poor diet or lack of exercise or bad sleep habits - may have a precipitating cause themselves. Whether male or female, letting yourself get overwhelmed by emotion can damage not only your mind but also that crucial organ, the heart...