Children’s Ministry and Culture

The eminently readable Elizabeth Weil of the New York Times has a fantastic article, “Teaching Boys And Girls Separately” in today’s New York Times Magazine (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/magazine/02sex3-t.html?em&ex=1204606800&en=087b8a0f538d2c2b&ei=5087%0A) and I would encourage you to sit down and read this lengthy piece on an important topic.

I have written earlier on the “feminization” of the classroom and on how often boys have been found to be less adept at what passes for success in a classroom. Weir takes this a step further and highlights a growing trend in Public education (it’s been long a hallmark of many private schools) where boys and girls are taught in separate forms.