Against Coeducation
January, 1977
After 100 years of American experimentation with coeducation, it is clear that it is a failure. In most central cities, primary and secondary coeducational schools are an unqualified disaster. Nationally, more boys than girls are academic failures. The reason is coeducation itself--because of its institutional refusal to admit the natural inequality of boys and girls. Coeducation is a costly mistake that ought to be abolished. It doesn't work.The reason it doesn't work is that it denies the sexu...
