The article is a straw-woman: There are both kinds of colleges, so if she found she wasn't suited to a co-ed college and thought another sort would do, then transferring is always possible. Don't know what her alumni dad would have said, tho', and her article mentions this is all in hindsight for her. Given the stats she uses for date and otherwise, rapes, I'm pretty sure strength and confidence comes into play only so far, and then being attacked, especially from someone they're dating, it's just out of the blue.
Because she doesn't back up her article with what I think of as real scholarship, just her musings, I don't think there's much to her points. Maybe that's my just being an egotistical white male... or maybe it's just that I felt like she'd simply held up a straw man and threw a drink at it.
Yeah, but if you are a heterosexual female who actively dates males, isn't it just as likely that you could be raped on a date with someone who doesn't go to the same school? My point is that the solution to rape, date and otherwise, isn't gender segregation any more than it's the solution to racially motivated or homophobic attacks.
I am more thinking about this in terms for the Orthodox Jewish community where I now live in which you get this very awkward version of gender relations where these people did not socialize in high school with the opposite gender and are now playing the kind of sad high school games that people are supposed to get over in college.
It's worse in the more Chasidic communities where the only time these guys interact with women who aren't their wives is the strip clubs.
THe argument I hear is that boys and girls learn differently and that the current system favours the "female" style of learning which is why boys are falling behind. But everyone has their own style of learning, mine is different to my brother's for example. It's the teacher's job to work with all the styles in their class regardless of gender.
I've taught at an all boy's school, an all girl's school and co-ed schools and all three are very different places. Each has their advantages and disadvantages but generally I prefer the co-ed.
Learning stylesext_857240September 21 2012, 16:39:30 UTC
Learning styles do vary quite a bit from male to female. I think some classes may work better done single-sex - an all girl math class for instance. But, that would be one or two classes per day in a co-ed school.
I have no comment related to Faust's posting since I agree.
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Given the stats she uses for date and otherwise, rapes, I'm pretty sure strength and confidence comes into play only so far, and then being attacked, especially from someone they're dating, it's just out of the blue.
Because she doesn't back up her article with what I think of as real scholarship, just her musings, I don't think there's much to her points. Maybe that's my just being an egotistical white male... or maybe it's just that I felt like she'd simply held up a straw man and threw a drink at it.
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It's worse in the more Chasidic communities where the only time these guys interact with women who aren't their wives is the strip clubs.
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I've taught at an all boy's school, an all girl's school and co-ed schools and all three are very different places. Each has their advantages and disadvantages but generally I prefer the co-ed.
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I have no comment related to Faust's posting since I agree.
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