- I am unsure as to my reaction to this reading, because I think separation, in anyway, especially at a young age, can be harmful to the growth socially of children. The idea of one group being better than another and, "privilege", as talked about by Johnston, can be applied.
2. "Currently, there are 49, and 65 percent of those have opened in the last three years. Nobody is keeping exact count of the number of schools offering single-sex classrooms, but Sax estimates that in the fall of 2002, only about a dozen public schools in the United States offered any kind of single-sex educational options. By this past fall, Sax says, that number had soared to more than 360, with boys- and girls-only classrooms now established in Cleveland; Detroit; Albany; Gary, Ind.; Philadelphia; Dallas; and Nashville, among other places.
- I find this number very low, if the article says that it is such a good idea, I think this shows that people have apprehensions of separating kids, regardless of the learning rate they have.
3. "Sax also goes out of his way to note that Bender had this conversation with the boy “shoulder to shoulder,” not “face to face.” “Just remember this rule of thumb,” Sax tells readers: “A good place to talk with your son is in your car, with you driving and your son in the passenger seat.”
- This was an interesting point of view on the situation, that kids open up more when they are not directly facing a person. I can remember back to elementary school when I would talk more to my parents (not like I didn't talk enough all the time), when I was in the car and not indirectly speaking to them
-I am still unsure how I feel about the single-sex classrooms. In a way I see it as going backwards instead of forwards in the bridging the gap of who is "better" than another.
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