And the argument about girls=orderly and boys=rambunctious, well, doesn't that justify the first point then, that perhaps boys do need to be stopped in the hall more often than girls?
That's actually the one that would worry me; it seems to me to be the school conveying an expectation that girls will behave themselves and boys will not. Even if tactically accurate, it seems a bad message to send (especially if it is conveyed more subtly elsewhere) - I would strongly agree that such things ought to be consistent.
I don't mean to say that the optimal rules for an all-girls' school would be the same as for an all-boys' school; very likely they would not. But having two different sets of rules in the same school seems likely to reinforce gender stereotypes in general.
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Re: (remcat pointed me - and others - this way :)
Date: 2006-01-26 10:09 pm (UTC)That's actually the one that would worry me; it seems to me to be the school conveying an expectation that girls will behave themselves and boys will not. Even if tactically accurate, it seems a bad message to send (especially if it is conveyed more subtly elsewhere) - I would strongly agree that such things ought to be consistent.
I don't mean to say that the optimal rules for an all-girls' school would be the same as for an all-boys' school; very likely they would not. But having two different sets of rules in the same school seems likely to reinforce gender stereotypes in general.