Well for starters, aside from the legality issues, the theories that gender segregation promotes better learning are at best just unproven theories without supporting data and at worst have been disproved by other studies. But let's play devil's advocate and say that there is merit in gender based segregation - are all teachers adequately trained to teach in a gender specific pedagogy? What part of the WV Teacher's Certification process validates an applicants ability to teach in a gender segregated environment? If not all teachers have the same ability, which gender gets the least qualified teacher? Would an administration schedule female students with the best math and science teachers to promote better female scoring in math and science to vindicate the administration's decision to employ gender segregation?<quoted text>
What problem do you have with the segregation?I believe it's a good idea because the children in middle school are all walking hormones.I think they tend to concentrate more when they are divided.I mean really what are your concerns about it.
And while you are pondering on all of that, what is the pedagogical relevance or benefit of segregating students by gender for lunch? You argued that the students "are all walking hormones". This would imply the teachers are not watching the lunch room at all and the students are actively engaging in flirtatious or salacious activities. Wouldn't the more prudent action be to possibly monitor the students? What if it wasn't inappropriate flirtations, but rather bigotry, racism, or violence between two different ethnic student groups? Would it be appropriate to segregate the students by their respective ethnicity or religion?
I have given you plenty of reasons to doubt the benefits of gender segregation. I challenge you to provide some bona fide reasons FOR gender segregation, particularly in a lunch room.