[Mikera]

It concerns me when people confuse the idea of gender equality and rights (which I think most reasonable people agree is a good thing) with the idea that men and women's lives have to be the same in all aspects.

I think it is much more harmful to impose a dogmatic belief that forces everyone to lead identical, mono-cultured lives and denies individual choice.

What if I want to go to a single-sex school? Who are you to deny me that choice?

[XorNot]

Who's denying it to you? But the same thing you complain abiut ia also ehxactly what single-sex schools are doing - its not about looking at your interests and learning style based on your home envitonment, test scores, and social proclivites to tey and find an optimum learning environmwnt for you - its about seeing if you have a penis and declaring that obviously you must 'learn competitively' and its very important we advocate you running around outside. Because clearly girls don't do those things.

I'm sadly never surprised that the cinclusions people draw about gendered education just so happen to reinforce societal gender stereotypes.