In the past, even the mention of creating a single-gender public school raised controversy with a wide array of opponents, including womens organizations. In 1996, the New York schools created the first all-girl school in the nation, and the controversy still rears its ugly head.
The Opponents
Opponents say that single-gender New York schools undercut the students civil rights by denying them access to the schools. Michael Meyers, head of the New York Coalition, brought suit against the New York schools in 1996, challenging the legality of the Young Womens Leadership School, located in Harlem, but lost the suit. He continues to look for New York schools students denied access to the school because of gender in hopes of bringing another suit, despite the schools successes.
Opponents also contend that such schools return New York schools education to the past, where girls major in home economics, rather than mathematics or science. They even charge that if mixed-gender New York schools had the same quality of well-trained and motivated teachers, those children also would excel.
Even Sonia Ossorio, New York Chapter of the National Organization for...
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