On Saturday, February 2, 2013, the Austin Statesman published an article title Plan for single sex school in East Austin is another pricey experiment, in this article the writer is discussing about how the Austin school trustees voted to approve single-sex schools last week for Garcia and Pearce middle schools. The audience for this article are the parents, homeowners and taxpayers because they deserve more serious discussions about how decisions of single-sex schools will affect the bottom line, the article talks about how Pearce and Garcia have also been rated academically unacceptable by the state of Texas in three of the past four years and they need to do something about it.
The writer of this article does make a point that is not a good idea and it's not the solution to improve the academic performance because the new research shows that in the classroom, separating the two sexes may not be the best way for either gender to learn and grow and I agree with that but we also know that
single sex education has a successful track for many decades and it has worked for private schools so why can't the same plan work with public schools? But another suggestion that has worked in urban school is moving to small classes that way the teacher can help them out even more.
The solution should be that they should allow the student to choose which type of learning environment they would like, however, the cost for all the same sex schools are larger. Single sex schools only seem better because they're usually in areas with lots of money or private.
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