SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 8, 10 July 1923, Page 3

SECONDARY SCHOOLS

TO THE EDITOR,

Sir,—ln a letter to your issue of 3rd April, Miss Coad stated as a reason for separating boys and girls in secondary schools that ''in America, some of the most famous co-educational schools are now separating the boys and girls, the famous Teachers' College, being a case in point." Miss Coad was asked to supply the names of some of the schools now adopting the practice, but failed to do so, so ihat apparently her case rests on the action of Teachers' College only. I wrote at 'once to the Columbia Teachers'. College requesting a. statement of' the reason why, in"their practising school, thoy have separated boys and girls, and by last mail received the enclosed reply. It will be seen that the practice of Columbia . College does not lend any support to Miss Coad's argument but that, in the opinion of the principal, "the majority of the teachers believe in co-education as tho ideal type of social life for high school pupils."—l am, etc.,

JOHN H. HOWELL.

9th July.

Following is a copy of the letter referred to:—

"The boys and girls in our high school wero separated nine years.ago. The immediate occasion of this separation was the building of a new school for our boys on the outskirts of Iho city, where they would have a better playground. This change was not made solely upon the basis nf the merits of the question of co-educa-tion. If all other factors wero equal I am inclined to think that a majority of our teachers believe, in co-education as the ideal typo of social life for high school pupils.—Very truly yours (signed) Henry C. Pearson."