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From: pepke@ds1.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
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Subject: Re: sexist space
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Date: 8 Mar 91 05:09:22 GMT
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In article <1991Mar4.150345.7223@midway.uchicago.edu> erm2@midway.uchicago.EDU (elizabeth r morgan) writes:
>In February, the men's teacher left the school for medical reasons,
>and the classes were recombined. Two weeks after the recombination,
>all the women had shut up again.

That's a good reason to assume that it was a failure.

There are two basic views on the pragmatic value of single-whatever 
environments.

One is that they give normally disadvantaged people a chance to hone their
skills which they can then apply to open environments.

The other is that they train people to rely on the isolation of an environment
maintained by others and therefore prevent them from learning the skills which
they would be able to apply to open environments.

Your story certainly does not support the former view.

-EMP