<p>Weenie, thanks for sharing your boys' experiences. We thought about an all-boys school for my son but he wanted to go to his sister's co-ed high school. I think he would have thrived in the environment you describe.</p>
<p>Having my son play freshman football was a real eye-opener for me this fall. He was never the jock-type, more of the nerdy-type - or at least that's how we pegged him. We thought he would drop out after the first week and I cringed when I saw all of the male-bonding going on and the way the coaches talked to the boys (they didn't yell, but there was no warm and fuzzy cheering either like I remembered from my daughter's elementary school soccer team.) The amazing thing is my son loved the entire experience - loved the sense of comraderie, loved the level of committment and hard work demanded by the coaches, loved the discipline, loved the way the coaches treated the boys. He is actually bereft that it is over, and is planning on going out for JV next year. It isn't the game he misses, it's the practices, the coaches, his team mates, and everything else that went with it. I never would have thought that my son would have thrived in this kind of world, which has made me realize that maybe some boys do need a different type of challenge/experience than girls do.</p>