The school that went gender neutral
by Sanchez Manning, Mail on Sunday:
It was a bold social experiment predicated on the modish belief that perhaps boys and girls aren’t quite so different after all. The BBC’s idea was to create a gender-neutral classroom of seven-year-olds for a TV documentary.
What would happen, wondered producers, if all differences between boys and girls were removed over a six-week period? Could it change the way the children thought and close the gaps in their achievement levels?
So out went boys-only football matches and books about fairytale princesses. In came mixed sports teams, unisex books and posters proclaiming that ‘boys are sensitive’ and ‘girls are strong’.
The school even abolished girls and boys loos for the class, much to the horror of pupils.
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