Did you go to a single-gender high school or grade school?

No.

But my father always threatened me in Jr. High that if I kept getting Cs and Ds, he'd put me in the All-Boys school!!!

And I kept trying to get worse grades after because of it. ;)

High School for two years, until my younger brother punched a teacher.

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I'm very grateful to have attended an all-boy Catholic high school. I had just begun experiencing bullying and harassment in 8th grade, but that ended once I entered high school. Boys are nicer when they're not showing off to impress girls.

I would think for a DLer, it could either have been an enlightening and memorable experience or a living hell.

I believe you’re thinking of sex. Gender is that thing that blue haired people have.

Single gender high school (it went coed the year after my graduation). Just had a major reunion. But I realized pretty quickly there were only about 10 people from the entire high school whose life and careers I was interested in following up on. Unlikely to attend another one. But anyway, 1/6 of the class had died. Yikes!

I went to an all-male liberal arts college at a time when most of them were in the process of going coed. (Yes, I'm old.) Being gay, I didn't feel I was missing anything. Mine went co-ed my junior year.

I never considered it but there is something to what R4 said. I attended two different all boys Jesuit High schools because a family move - freshman/sophomore year and junior/senior year. They were not cliquey and there was no real hierarchy with jocks being at the top. Academics ruled. Smart kids were the cool, respected kids. Jocks intermingled with the Chess club, or you had boys who were in both groups. And our athletic teams were strong - our football team winning state and one of our swimmers going on to the Olympics (Joe Hudepohl) that year. Even still, AP placement courses, good grades and SAT scores ruled considering academic performance is what kept you in school. And community service was emphasized with 10/20/40/80 hours a year required each progressive year since raising “Men for Others” is the philosophy of Jesuit schools. So it was a much more tranquil experience and not one driven by hormonal coed teen angst. I didn’t know I was at the time, but it made being gay in retrospect much easier.

Yep - 1000 catholic boys. Absolute fucking nightmare. And my sister went to school with 1000 catholic girls and had a similar experience.

If I had kids I'd send them to the local free public co-educational school - way less chance of them being fucked up.

I started an all boy's high school but my father got caught in a scandal and we had to get out of town. Fast. I was put into a co-ed school in the new locale.

I tend to think single sex schooling is better for girls, and co-ed schooling is better for boys.

Girls because they aren’t competing for male attention and tend to have higher self esteem and don’t naturally cater to men.

Boys in single sex will tend to be more immature.

Am I the only one who wanted to desperately go to an All-Boys school?

The thought of balls and cock on my face was irresistible.

When I was a kid, I read a lot of stories about kids in boarding schools. It was a popular genre so I thought it was normal. Was quite disappointed that my parents couldn’t afford to send me to boarding school.

[quote] Am I the only one who wanted to desperately go to an All-Boys school?

No. It was my dream come true.

R8 Claremont?

I was supposed to skip 8th grade, going from a public jr high to an all-male Catholic prep school. I had been admitted to their 9th grade, and my hr high teachers thought it was a great idea. The day before classes started I told my parents I didn’t want to go through with it. I stayed in the public school system through college. I often wonder what might have happened—I learned how to find older dick pretty easily, in any case.

r6, gender is about plumbing. Sex is about acts. Explain how exactly you would "have gender" with someone.

[quote]Boys are nicer when they're not showing off to impress girls.

Actually, my experience has been just the opposite. Guys are always daring each other to take risks, or "be a pussy". Girls seldom do that.

Even gays I think goad each other to push the envelope with antics. Certainly a male phenomenon.

r14 I went to boarding school from 5th-12th grades. It was wonderful!!

Everyone at my school was a zher.

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