But the main goal of the changes, Kahl said, is to improve academic results. That target is by no means guaranteed. The state's six other single-sex academies have operated for less than two years, and formal studies on their students' progress won't be completed until later this year. Other reports suggest that girls do better in math and science when taught separately from boys, but Kahl acknowledged that the results remain inconclusive. But in reality, probably all of those things come into play.
Some parents agree.
Many, like Mildred Stansberry, the grandmother and guardian of an eighth-grader at Jefferson, said she supports the plan. Nowadays the girls . I want them to come home talking about books. But Ira Williams, father of Taryn, a sixth-grader at Jefferson, said he opposes the plan. I thought we were past that.