Should I send my boys to an all boy school?

[Alexander's Horse]

I'm thinking of sending my boys to an all boys school. They can start in year 4 and go right through to complete secondary education at Marist Brothers College:

http://www.maristoz.edu.au/schools/ACT/pearce.html

The full school web site is here:

http://www.maristc.act.edu.au/

Aidan is keen to go because some of his friends are going.

That will keep their little minds off sex and on their studies! Good idea don't you think?

(btw, does anyone know what happened to my behave yourselves thread last night?)

[Asher]

Are you trying to make them gay?

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Asher
Are you trying to make them gay?

Don't be stupid Asher - going to an all male school makes you more hetero - haven't you heard of the mad catholic rooter?

[Asher]

Don't be stupid Asher - going to an all male school makes you more hetero

I forgot that even the toilets are backwards in Australia.

Nevermind.

[Alexander's Horse]

The fact the school is devoted to Mary sets up the Madonna/whore thing for them at an early age

But best of all, blokey rough sport is compulsory and they have RUGBY

I can just see my boys filling out this backline.

[Zulu Elephant]

No No No No No!

Do I really have to explain why?

Cutting them off from contact with the opposite sex during the years when they are waking up to the idea of girls must cause enormous problems.

The could grow up fearing girls, resenting girls, misunderstanding girls or not knowing how to talk to girls.

Seperate schools magnify differences in the minds of those involved.

[ColdWizard]

why even bother asking the question? just do whatever Mrs. Horse decides

[Asher]

I agree with Zulu Elephant, it's a horrible thing to do to the kids.

[DaShi]

Nah! They'll just grow up to be male chauvanist pigs.

[Bereta_Eder]

i've been to an all boy school for the last two years of highschool but my grade was the last of the moichans.

the younger grades were mixed. so we met the girls at the breaks it was kind of a conservative school BTW but considered one of the best.(=the reason i was sent there, not because it wasnt mixed) - (that's where Axi went too)

my previous school was mixed and very,very liberal (not in Greece that one). it even had a special cantine where smoking was allowed etc

i never had problems with girls taking my mind off school (to the point that it would influence my GPA or performace - in the classrooms)

from the two i can say i didnt like the first mentioned school but the fact that there were younger girls from the younger grades which we could meet in the breaks in the courtyard at least made it easier.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Zulu Elephant

Cutting them off from contact with the opposite sex during the years when they are waking up to the idea of girls must cause enormous problems.

evidence?

The could grow up fearing girls, resenting girls, misunderstanding girls or not knowing how to talk to girls.

Seperate schools magnify differences in the minds of those involved.

Evidence?

Millions of kids go to single sex schools all over the world - it was what made Britain great.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse


evidence?



Evidence?

Millions of kids go to single sex schools all over the world - it was what made Britain great.

So now you're siding with asher?

[Apocalypse]

I go to an all guys school and it is fine.

Having no girls is fine for two main reasons:
1. Girls are more into you. Unless you are some loser, you will know girls from other places. These girls find you automatically more interesting than the guys at their own schools.

2. You can act like a guy. You don't have to watch your language at all. You don't have to comb your hair. You don't have to worry about looking nice. Your clothes don't have to coordinate. No one will make fun of you for this because it is an all guys school and you aren't trying to impress anyone.

[Bereta_Eder]

BTW some years after the admission of girls in that school the number of its pupils being accepted to Universities droped like a rock (whereas it was one of the 3 highest in Greece).

but that was because of other bullsh!t reforms of course

[Asher]

evidence?

Evidence?

Millions of kids go to single sex schools all over the world - it was what made Britain great.

Do you really need evidence of something so obvious?

It's like asking for evidence of homosexual sex in prison.