Wait if someone blokes you, you can't see their posts? I didn't know that was how it worked. I thought they just couldn't see yours.I read everything on this thread and I haven’t seen anything in over a week. I mist be blocked
Yes, they do mix but it shouldn't be 24/7, over everything, in my opinion
On the other hand, as a woman who went to a mixed grammar school, it certainly gives you training in resilience and brilliant putdowns for sleazy creepy men in years to come. Most older sleazy creeps are teenage boys who have never grown up and referring to them as needle dick still works.I went to an all-girls school and I hated it. However, after reading the Ofsted report about how girls are subjected to sexual abuse and harrassment on a daily basis whilst at school, I'm strongly encouraging my step-daughter to send her daughters to single-sex schools.
I went to an all-girls school and I hated it. However, after reading the Ofsted report about how girls are subjected to sexual abuse and harrassment on a daily basis whilst at school, I'm strongly encouraging my step-daughter to send her daughters to single-sex schools.
It is to me
Yeah I was also thinking girls night in, and it’s the same thing. You want a get together with your mates but then there’s men coming along
Yes I get what you’re saying. Of course if you’re in public you have to expect men to be around. Change my comparison to girls night in. Either way you wouldn’t want their other halves hanging around
Not to mention it just reinforces the "X is for girls, Y is for boys" crap we get for everything from clothes to toys to colours. Let kids be kids.
Yeah, I understand it’s good for them to mix and I’m all for that but don’t they mix everywhere else? Parks, schools, everywhere. There isn’t actually one thing they can have where it’s just girls or boys. It used to be scouts and guides. That’s no more. This is my main point. There’s no setting for this anymore. Anyway it’s just my opinion. It’s not gonna change anything!
Yes I would never consider a same sex school even though I would prefer scouts and guides to have remained separate. That’s a step too far for me
Not really. You spend your first 11 years of life in mixed classes, and every other minute outside 9-3pm mixing. You presumably have brothers, cousins and other male relatives? You go to mixed hobbies and sports clubs? Public transport and school buses to school are mixed, walking to school? It's hardly like being in a nunnery for 5 years. It just allows girls to focus on their studies, interests and let them be themselves for a few hours a day . I have found personally and professionally that single sex girls (more specifically) are much more confident as teenagers and into adulthood. Just my observations though.
Absolutely. When someone is attempting to take their life, they’re at their lowest, they don’t see any other option. To make any kind of judgement about how selfish or manipulative they’re being is really unfair.
I agree. I spent 7 years at an all girls school and I really didn’t like it. I had gone to a mixed primary school and knew boys outside of school, but it’s definitely not the same as attending a mixed school.
First thing my father thought to say to me after an attempt, after I got out of hospital & found it in me to tell him (we're not close, not like I am with my mum) his first words were chanting how selfish I was because I'm a mother. As if suicide & MH issues discriminate. I already felt terrible.
I agree and I also disagree with the idea that it prevents girls from experiencing sexual harassment. I went to a mixed-sex school and was horrifically bullied - mainly by girls - and was sexually harassed solely by girls.
