Quote: (02-24-2014 04:17 PM)Baldwin81 Wrote:
I went to all boys high school. Like anything else, let's call it 20 percent of the guys (lacrosse players, mostly, but drug guys, too) got with 80 percent of the girls from nearby all-girls schools. Based on experience, I'd argue that there is a socialisation problem. If you were not in that top 20 percent then you really didn't get any consistent socialization with girls. Haha, thinking back, we 80 percenters would pretend to be banging some girl that nobody else ever met.
Still, it was quite possible that one could leave an all boys high school being just as nervous and awkward around girls as when he left 8th grade. At a co-ed school you could at least interact with girls on a daily basis... even if you weren't getting laid. Thinking back again, I always thought the lacrosse guys had it made because they wouldn't have to deal with girlfriends during the day but would still get to bang regularly.
The positives are that all-boys school can really toughen you up. No whining, no crying, no transpcgenderqueer-nonsense, everyone competes and only a handful win.
Last but not least (or perhaps least, if life after school is any guide...) the education was very good. College gets a hard time on RVF and justifiably so, but a good high school education has value and I definitely would have learned less if there had been girls around.
It's a close call. Not being around girls and not being in that top 20% really blew. In the end - I realize this more as I get older - I'd say that the education and the toughening-up made the experience worthwhile. Haha, I guess all boys school is alright so long as you find out about game. Ironically, the intellectual curiousity to seek out game literature was fostered at all boys school.
I guess the 80:20 rule applies everywhere. Think about how it would have been if you were at a co-ed school. Being in the 80% would mean more constant rejection. At least during school hours at a boys school you could forget about that.
My own opinion is that it doesn't make that much difference, though I am leaning to sending my (hypothetical) children (both sons and daughters) to all - boys/girls schools. As much because they are usually the best schools as with any other possible benefits.