You've got male: New school says boys will be... separate
Name some Little Rascals. Alfalfa, Spanky, Buckwheat. If Darla or Mary didn't make your list, that may be because the boys– rowdy, hyper, messy– took center stage. But a new school aims to show that boys, since they're different from girls, can thrive in an environment that caters to them. And to them only.
"Something is happening where boys are getting the message 'School is not for you,'" says Todd Barnett, founder of Field School of Charlottesville, an all-boys middle school set to launch this fall. Barnett acknowledges that boys can be rambunctious, but he says forcing them to sit for seven hours at a desk, and prohibiting horseplay– even at recess, as some schools do– is counterproductive.
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