As The Daily Telegraph recently reported, girls’ schools are less likely than boys’ schools to have generous alumni or healthy historical endowments, purely because they haven’t existed as long.
Some argue that in our modern world, girls’ schools are outdated and even perpetuate patriarchy. Besides, the slightly Victorian concept of keeping away fragile burgeoning girls from delinquent males, and churning out prim and proper young ladies at 18, is hardly something that most parents consider when sending their kids to school.
Of course, there are the statistics. Girls perform better academically in single-sex environments. But girls’ schools offer something more – something rarer than the opportunity to excel and achieve.
It’s difficult to convey if you’ve never spent time in one, but a girls’ school is like an alternate universe. A place where it’s perfectly acceptable to shout “has anyone got a sanitary towel?!” in the middle of a French lesson because finding women’s biology shameful hasn’t been drummed into you yet.
Most of all, within their gates you believe that you can do anything because the football champs, the maths whizzes, the Oxbridge applicants and even the class clowns are all girls.
Of course, teenagers are teenagers wherever they are, and girls’ schools don’t shelter students from the cornerstone dilemmas of adolescence like bullying, friendship issues or even poor mental health.
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There’s also the argument that mixed gender classrooms create a more balanced, dynamic environment that better reflects the working world. But I’ve taught in both single-sex and mixed schools, and the girls in single-sex schools not only seem genuinely happier and less inhibited, they seem younger at heart and unafraid to take up space.
Before I am dismissed as a misandrist, let me clarify that I don’t think teenage boys are the devil incarnate, and my advocacy for girls’ schools isn’t to say that I think all schooling should be segregated from birth until adulthood, just for secondary school. But we cannot deny the facts – a generation of young men has been let down by this virulent strain of toxic masculinity.
Nadeine Asbali is a secondary-school teacher in London
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