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Not long ago at a party someone asked me why I send my daughter to an all-girls' school. Now the tone of the question wasn't entirely neutral. The person clearly thought this was a bad move.

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PINTO
May 31, 2007, 1:18 p.m.
This woman needs to get off her highhorse. She assumes her daughter wouldnt get a decent education at a public school because she is a girl!?
Im not sure about everyone else but id say throughtout my 12 years of school about 70% of my teachers we women and the girls were always shown preferencial treatment. Never discriminated against or given less opportunity.
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amazed
May 31, 2007, 4:09 p.m.
At their request, my daughters attended an all-girls high school and my son attended an all-boys high school. It worked well for all of them. My son is a junior in college and I have doubts that he would have even graduated from high school had he stayed in our local public school. He was very happy in the boys' schools and always had a girl friend.
After a year in the honors program at the same high school my son fled, my daughter declared that it was not a "good learning environment" (as a freshman, no less), did some research and decided that the all girls school was where she wanted to go. She just finished her freshman year of colleg and is transferring to the Naval Academy in Annapolis.
My youngest daughter chose to go to the girls school from her freshman year and is doing very well. She loves the school and is not feeling at all socially deprived.
Single sex education is probably not for everyone, but it's worked for us.