Midstate school separating boys and girls in class this year

Well, I'm back after a few days looking for something to blog about. Think I found something.

I just got finished reading an article at Macon.com, the site for the Macon Telegraph. The article, entitled "Midstate school separating boys and girls in class this year", discusses a new change at Wilkinson County Middle School. The school system there has decided to start separating their classes by sex in order to see if there will be any improvements in grades. As the article states, there have been 13 schools in the State to do this. Moreover, 442 schools in the Republic have moved to classes separated by sex; originally there were only 11.

Now, on to my feelings on the matter. I think that if it's done right it's a great idea. I've always felt that students would do better if they were separated by sex. Heck, I could've been an A student in most of my classes if I hadn't been so busy trying to catch some girl's attention. The main problem I have is something the article brought up, which is what happened in Greene County when the school system tried to implement the program unilaterally without talking to the parents of their students. For more information on that, read "All Greene County grades to be same-sex" atOnlineAthens.com.In any situation where the school is making changes the parents have to have the right to be involved and need to be asked to be involved. To do otherwise is to invite disaster.

I'll be keeping an eye on this school and other schools in Georgia that have gone the single-sex education route. Hopefully there will be more successes than failures. And who knows? If it looks like there is a majority of successes I might just have a talk with some parents I know and, after feeling them out, the local board to see about getting my schools to go in this direction.