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Tony Tata proposing creating single-gender schools

Submitted by KeungHui on 09/06/2011 - 16:20

I'll go into more detail later, but Wake County Superintendent Tony Tata wants the school board to consider approving a pair of single-gender schools for the 2012-13 school year.

Under a proposal presented today, Tata wants to create a leadership academy for male students and one for female schools. It would be the first single-gender schools in Wake, but administrators went into detail about how successful it's been in Guilford County.

Staff is looking at eventually serving 500 students in grades 6-12 in each school with a possible early college focus, meaning students could graduate high school with college credit.

Possible sites include the Longview School for the male students and the former Raleigh Charter High site for the female students.

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Comments

the jury is still out

Tue, 09/06/2011 - 19:04 — louiselee44

But, hmmm...for middle schoolers? Just might do some good! :^)

Why now

Tue, 09/06/2011 - 17:40 — mommy59

why would anybody want all same sex schools when the trend like Peace college is to be co-ed!

Great Idea!

Wed, 09/07/2011 - 07:04 — stansbury

I would be very interested in these schools. Fewer distractions. More focus on academics instead of "the opposite gender". Hope they have some sports too (volleyball, soccer??) as my child is very active. But maybe they could reduce the cost for these schools by NOT having football teams, stadiums, basketball teams, etc. Plus, sounds like it would be around 70 students/grade so smaller in size than other middle schools or high schools. I hope they can go forward with this.

Hmmm...

Wed, 09/07/2011 - 19:14 — Dove314

It would seem like you would need more than 280 HS students on each campus to make this a viable option given the HS graduation requirements and if there is a desire to have standard, Honors, and AP sections for the required courses.