I went to an all girl’s high school in the late 1970s and had a fantastic experience in every sense and it set me up to go a very fine university. However, I was startled to learn from a friend of mine who is an Ivy League admissions officer that there is no evidence at all that girls who attend all-girls schools fare any better academically than girls who attend co-ed schools. In fact, she says it is well known in admissions that the standardized math scores of girls from same-sex high schools are below those of girls from co-ed high schools. She actually is as disappointed in this as I was to hear it, and there are competing views as to why. One theory is that teachers in co-ed schools tend to challenge their classes with more advanced material because the boys demand it and want to compete.

yes, would be much better to be home with the kids while all starved