<p>What are your opinions on single sex schools?
Like Emma Willard, Miss Porter's, Miss Hall's etc for girls and McCallie for boys.</p>
<p>Good or Bad? Better or Worse? Would you recommend it?
Any experiences...etc</p>
<p>Where I have lived before single sex education in private school is the norm. I attend single sex from 2nd through 7th grade, it was alright when you don’t know any different. I attend to co-ed school currently and sometimes boys can be annoying and sexist but I’m applying for all co-ed boarding schools right now. All girls together can make girls more *****y at least in my experience although not having to worry about what boys think can be good. Personally I get on better with ‘nerdy’ boys better than most girls and currently many of my best friends are boys, none of whom im dating. The pressure to date can be annoying sometimes and it was something i never had to worry about in the past. I don’t know what single-sex education is like in america though. This could be better writen but I have this pile of homework I’ve yet to start so I better run.</p>
<p>I went to a single gender school and it was awesome. I didn’t even feel the difference between it and a coed school. People are much more supportive and nicer as long as you are not to mean or clingy or wierd. 
The girls work hard. But in most single genders schools you are friends with the closest all boys school at least that was how it was for us.</p>
<p>There are a lot of different opinions on this. Some say that, at least for girls schools, there are more cliques, everyone’s more catty, exclusive, snobby…
Others say that it’s so much nicer at a girls school than coed. I heard that they don’t care about makeup anymore; no boy drama, no impressing boys, no feeling judged by guys; just a supportive environment with your girlfriends. I heard all of this (The second paragraph, I mean) from Emma Willard, by the way. I’ve never heard of any cattiness there.</p>
<p>My guess is that it depends on which girls school it is. And sorry, I don’t know about how it is at a boys schools at all.</p>
<p>I went to all girls school for one year- 10th grade. It was great; it is true that it is a more supportive and less pressurised environment. Academically, i didn’t feel any difference but there was less pressure to look good and the boy distraction was less prevalent. The social scene didn’t revolve around boys. Our brother school was just down the road too and many girls had boyfriends from there but it was just a more relaxed atmosphere and girls could feel freerer to just be themselves and we could talk about ‘girl stuff’ without being worried that the guys will hear us. The catty, snobby people will be found everywhere, both single sex and co-ed but on the whole, an all girls environment was more lax in my experience. A month into that environment, i felt like i just didn’t know any different.</p>
<p>My daughter is a Miss Porter’s grad - it was a supportive, less catty, no impressing the boys school. She is in a coed school now and says it is very different. While she is enjoying the coed school, she does say that the girls school was much less full of drama and sillyness!</p>
<p>Which do you think is better in your opinion, Emma Willard or Miss Porter’s?</p>
<p>They’re both great girls schools. I do not have personal experience with EWS but there is another mother,jedwards, whose daughter is a senior at EWS this year. You could try to ask her for more info on Emma.
My daughter loved Porter’s. They have great academics; strong dance, theater, music programs and arts. The sports program is very competitive.
About 2/3 of the students are boarders and 1/3 are day students.
If you will be flying to boarding school, I think the Bradley International airport in Hartford is very convenient.
Good luck with your search.</p>
<p>no I wouldn’t be flying in. Porter’s is about an hour away from me, not even. though I’m glad you know that Bradley exists most people only think of the BIG city airports and not the semi local ones.</p>
<p>How would you compare a girls school to a coed school socially? Besides all the crap like “more focused” and “less embarrassed”.( >P Blehk! I hate that.) is the lack of guys REALLY that noticeable etc…</p>
<p>no I wouldn’t be flying in. Porter’s is about an hour away from me, not even. though I’m glad you know that Bradley exists most people only think of the BIG city airports and not the semi local ones.</p>
<p>How would you compare a girls school to a coed school socially? Besides all the crap like “more focused” and “less embarrassed”.( >P Blehk! I hate that.) is the lack of guys REALLY that noticeable etc…</p>
<p>Not really, only difference is sometimes people tease you because your friends happen to be male. Socially its fairly similiar</p>
<p>i went to mccallie for 2 years and it was a good experience…the only bad part was all my friends back home made fun of me for going to an all guys school…i got alot of questions concerning my sexuality haha</p>
<p>I went to Harpeth Hall. It was a great school.</p>