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(MSNBC)-Bush administration describes them as tools; critics see segregation
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is giving public schools wider latitude to teach boys and girls separately in what is considered the biggest change to coed classrooms in more than three decades.
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After a two-year wait, the Education Department issued final rules Tuesday detailing how it will enforce the Title IX landmark anti-discrimination law. Under the change taking effect Nov. 24, local school leaders will have discretion to create same-sex classes for subjects such as math, a grade level or even an entire school.
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After receiving 5,600 public comments, education officials said they were moving forward with the plan with some wording tweaks and assurances from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that it was legally sound.
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(MSNBC)-Critics who compare the plan to “separate but equal” segregation-era classrooms haven’t been so sure. The National Organization for Women says it creates the risk of breeding second-class citizens. The American Association of University Women has said it would “throw out the most basic legal standards prohibiting sex discrimination in education.”
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Originally posted by closettrekkie
Number one, I don't put much creedence in what some of these groups like to spout. Seems like they always need a reason to complain. They don't state how it will "throw out the most basic legal standards prohibiting sex descrimination" do they? They are speculating that it "could" or "might" be discriminating.
Did you also read the part in the article where these classes would be voluntary?
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
Single-sex schools used to be quite common, at least as far as private institutions went, although I never attended one. If they fell out of favor it was because of the feminist garbage that was published as fact for a couple of generations, which is now being refuted by evidence and now feminists who once were hell-bent on breaking down all gender-based barriers are hell-bent on replacing many of those barriers, however it suits their agenda.
Originally posted by closettrekkie
Iori - Children learn about socialization in many given situations. School is for learning, it's not an ice cream social.
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I'm tired of people trying to make us sexLESS!
I feel that these "groups" are trying to make everyone the same. There IS a difference between men and women. It's becoming so controversial to even admit that for some reason. We are different and I embrace those differences.
I don't find it to be freeing when women are afraid to spend time at home raising their children because some feminist says she should be at work and be proud of it.
I think it's important that we remember who we are. This society is turning women into a bunch of burnt out worker bees and the men are becoming more and more femine and confused.
Originally posted by parrhesia
Men aren't inherently masculine.
I feel that these "groups" are trying to make everyone the same. There IS a difference between men and women. It's becoming so controversial to even admit that for some reason. We are different and I embrace those differences.