And these differences can severely impact the potentials of young women. In almost every way elementary school age girls excel over their male counterparts. Very young girls talk earlier, read earlier, count earlier. Before the influences of the traditional mixed gender schools, girls score significantly higher on IQ tests than pre-school boys. But the fifth grade far more boys are identified as gifted than girls.
Girls begin to suppress and repress their natural intellectual skills and abilities.
The class clown, the bully, the disruptive student, the openly aggressive pupil all tend to be male behavioral patterns. In mixed gender situations, the teacher must focus on these disrupters in order to ensure classroom control. In mixed gender situations, the teacher is naturally grateful for this withdrawal, because the teacher needs to handle the more openly disruptive boys. . . In a women's school all of the attention is focused on women. . The leaders are women.