I have a grand daughter who I would love to send to an all girls school if I could afford it. She is a 4.3 GPA student in a public school and is doing just fine but just turned 16 and is now old enough to date (not according to her dad). If she were in an all girls school, we might could hold that off a bit longer. Just grandma talkin'

At the time I hated it and the bitchy girls. But it made me stronger as an adult and I saw powerful role models in the nuns who taught me. All the administration were women and we were taught that you can do anything you want if you work hard at it. I worked years later as the only women in a male oriented job. Sure I got harassed and put down but I could always smack back at them that they stopped messing with me. The nuns taught me how to fight back.

I loved it and the nuns were great! The priest was a jerk and I had about a 1.5 hour bus ride to and from, so I pressured my parents to switch me to the public school...quit learning.

He liked it.

The school has been around a long time and it is considered a tradition to send your kid there.

I think the reason for the segregation is the schools are founded by different religious orders and orders are gender based.

For instance, the Brigidene Sisters, Sisters of the Charity of Incarnate Word, Ursuline Sisters...The sisters founded elementary and girls high schools.

Male orders are Society of Jesus, Franciscan etc. They founded the boys high schools.

We do have schools that were originally boys only that are now co-ed.

Nowadays there are very few nuns and brothers who teach.

If not, then I would say no.

Would we accept single race high schools?

Other people... you have to learn how to deal with them eventually.