Single-Sex Schools/Classrooms

In Georgia, school officials from Greene County have stopped pursuing a plan to separate each school in the entire district by gender.
What has resulted is something I wish more school districts would do, take a temperature of the population, and try to structure the district according to the results. This relates to an earlier post on this blog. Each family has a certain view as to the best type of school for their child(ren). While no school can please all the people all the time, I think it is essential that school start to think "outside the box" and find creative ways to provide choice.
In Green County, GA, the school district will try to mirror the poll results.
Most families will vote as to how the parents view education. However, I think that an intelligent family would look at their child and then make a decision. I will use my twin boys as an example.
Research has shown that single-sex schools can provide wonderful results in certain types of children. Boys who have a natural competitive streak and can get caught up in a school that "feminizes" learning will often turn off from school and disengage from academia.
When I use the term "feminize" I mean this - what has occurred in schools is that reading and writing are often about feelings and relationships. The term, Chick-Lit, is often used about the genre of books that middle-schoolers read.
So many boys enjoy non-fiction and How-To type books. Assignments that require boys to empathize with characters are not easy.
One of my twins would do well in a single-sex school, and the other would not. As I will say many times in this blog, schools face the daily challenge of providing education for a variety of learning styles, and one size does not fit all.