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U.S. schools with single-sex classrooms may face ACLU lawsuit
Source: Reuters
U.S. schools with single-sex classrooms may face ACLU lawsuit
By Jason McLure
LITTLETON, New Hampshire | Tue May 22, 2012 8:23pm EDT
(Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union is threatening legal action against as many as a dozen school districts from Maine to Mississippi unless they stop programs the group says illegally segregate boys and girls into single-sex classes and promote stereotypes.
The group also was demanding that Florida's Department of Education launch an investigation into widespread single-sex teaching in that state, where 32 schools in 16 districts offer single-gender classes. A spokeswoman for the department said they had not yet received the demand, which is posted on the ACLU's website.
Single-sex education has expanded into as many as 300 public schools in recent years — helped in part by a 2006 decision by the U.S. Department of Education that relaxed restrictions on the practice.
That decision, under President George W. Bush, allowed schools to offer voluntary single-sex classes so long as programs did not violate Title IX, a federal law that outlawed gender discrimination in education.
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By Jason McLure
LITTLETON, New Hampshire | Tue May 22, 2012 8:23pm EDT
(Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union is threatening legal action against as many as a dozen school districts from Maine to Mississippi unless they stop programs the group says illegally segregate boys and girls into single-sex classes and promote stereotypes.
The group also was demanding that Florida's Department of Education launch an investigation into widespread single-sex teaching in that state, where 32 schools in 16 districts offer single-gender classes. A spokeswoman for the department said they had not yet received the demand, which is posted on the ACLU's website.
Single-sex education has expanded into as many as 300 public schools in recent years — helped in part by a 2006 decision by the U.S. Department of Education that relaxed restrictions on the practice.
That decision, under President George W. Bush, allowed schools to offer voluntary single-sex classes so long as programs did not violate Title IX, a federal law that outlawed gender discrimination in education.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/23/us-usa-aclu-classroom-idUSBRE84M01020120523
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The suggestion that mixed sex classrooms somehow make promotion of stereotypes more likely needs to be proven beyond doubt.
And
It
Hasn't.
And actually address negative stereotypes. Just saying.
Besides, out in the real world, you have both sexes, and you need to learn to navigate that world.
