Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1900 — Boys’ Rights at School. [ARTICLE]

Boys’ Rights at School.

One of the school trustees of Chicago is soliciting the influence of woman’s cjubs to bring about the establishment of separate public schools for boys and girls, says Harper’s Bazar. This Is an Incident of the widespreadlng man movement. The separation of the sexes in the schools is sought not, as might at first be thought, because boys are rude and girls need to be protected. It Is because little girls, holding all the promise of the future of Susan B. Anthony’s United States, inspire school teachers to be partial in their attention. The girls do the most reciting, they take all the prizes and the boy is so generally neglected that even the chance of being President seems slipping from his hold. Moreover, sex favoritism prevails in the matter of the selection of teachers, and the school trustee wants not only separate schools for boys, but men to teach them. The assertion of a virile masculine element in the sexless, attenuated theories of modern education would doubtless benefit bpys, and by contrast might define something new, and at the same time good, in women.