And anecdotes are pretty useless when it comes to these issues to be quite frank

I understand that viewpoint, I personally disagree with it however. I very much enjoyed it and found my own high school experience to be beneficial, although some of that may be due to the fact my public school system was terrible which probably colored my view of the matter.

But girls schools and boys schools don’t exist on a large scale, they are just an available choice, and research has shown that girls thrive when boys are not part of the classroom.

All I know is what my brother and friends have said about their school. I don’t have any direct experience, so I can’t really speak to that further.

Oh please, one of the best things to happen to me was being able to go to a single sex high school where I was able to be as awkward and weird as only a teenager can be without the added pressure of doing all that in front of my potential dates. I will never get the knee jerk idea that this is a bad idea.

I went to an all-girls school. I loved it and hope to send my (potential) daughter(s) there one day. I didn’t find that the school encouraged a single way of being a girl— it encouraged all ways. It was like we were living in a bubble in which society’s expectations of girls were muffled. There was no ‘boys like…

You could say the exact same thing about large public schools, small schools within schools, religious schools, charter schools, military schools, arts- or math- or language focused schools... we don’t know who they will or won’t work for until they do or don’t work.

Many of his supporters are comfortably middle class and perfectly able to get to DC if they wanted to.

I live in a red state in flyover country, and marched with thousands of people at my state’s capital yesterday. Let’s not forget that this march wasn’t just held in DC!

Oh, what-the-fuck evER! Trump’s voters are the same dummies who were marching around with tea bags on their heads eight years ago. They’re the same dummies who crowded convention centers to hear their lord and master speak.

“I think the reasons for this are kind of obvious: most Trump supporters don’t live in the DC area and don’t have the money or time to travel to the coast for events like this.”

Okay, explain all the other cities, then.

but counting the number of people at his inauguration seems kind of petty.

ha ha ha. sure. But they had the time to travel hours in the middle of a weekday to attend one of his rallies? Car pooling and buses brought most people to DC for the Saturday march. We weren’t locals, most of us spend maybe $150 in total the whole weekend. If Trump’s supporters wanted to celebrate his win, they…

But lying about it repeatedly, in person and via surrogate, puts the new president’s priorities and lack of perspective in context. He could have gone high and not addressed it at all, or he could have been petty but accurate and pointed out the enormous crowds he drew during his campaign. (He could even have said…

Single-gender schools are no longer the norm and are declining in number, so I don’t think we are in danger of them being supported on a large scale.

This all-girls high school alum is grateful for having had the opportunity. It’s not right for everyone but it was right for me.

Can we just call it what it is? Propaganda. Aimed at deluding or frustrating an already divided public.

You are excellent at alienating would-be allies. Congrats!

Meanwhile, Kellyanne Conway is busy calling Spicer’s press conference lies “alternative facts”.

I’m a school counselor at an all-boys high school. I’m looking for good resources to help teach my students about gender equality, respecting women, preventing sexual assault, understanding consent, etc. - i.e. all the shit that they really need to learn and that I want to teach them well. Any and all recommendations…