Single Sex Classrooms

For years people have debated the advantages of single sex education, for matters such as attention span and unfair advantages in subjects such math and science. Now the Bush Administration has issued authorization for schools to separate classrooms based on sex. The "Boys Crisis" as Americans call it, is the major reason why many are pushing for this movement. Many believe that boys are lacking in academics and are falling further behind female counterparts. Boys and girls have different ways of learning and they believe would benefit from being in a single sex environment that would cater appropriately to their learning patterns. They believe by implementing this type of learning there will be great benefits and single sex classrooms will potentially close the gap between boys and girls achievement in schools. Others, however, believe that this crisis is not as big as people are speculating but are admitting that minority males are seriously behind their female counterparts. Stats show that boys test scores are up in certain cases, however girls are are improving also. Educators believe that this will only sidetrack and take away from the overall goal of public education pointing to examples in California that failed. They believe that it is a poor and time consuming investment that is not worth it in the long run.