Are Single-Sex Schools Discriminatory?

May 16, 2002

When President Bush signed the education bill into law in January of this year, little notice was given to the $3 million allotted for single-sex schools. For the first time in nearly 30 years, financing would be available for the establishment of single-sex schools under the amended Title IX regulations.

According to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, who sponsored the non-partisan legislation, single sex schools were in such demand in the private sector that it only seemed appropriate to make the opportunities available to public school parents.

Of those I interviewed if single-sex schools were discriminatory, discrimination was never an issue. The profound hope I sensed for establishing single-sex schools was a fresh willingness to try anything to stop the unparalleled erosion of moral standards in our youth.

Have concerned leaders begun to realize that this nation is being ravaged by sexual indulgence, and that America’s out of control youth is the result of morality and authority being questioned in most state schools?

Single-sex schools may be the expectation of some to offer an opportunity to children to be trained in morality and faith instead of immorality and atheism. History teaches when permissiveness seizes a culture it is the beginning of the end unless bold leadership steps forward to promote a spiritual revival that is sustained by the people who redirect the culture to moral integrity. Hitler knew that to alter the culture of Germany, he must demoralize the youth.

Parents know first hand of the public schools license to change their children’s values and behavior into humanistic beings. Even Colin Powell made the statement on MTV in February of this year that children should use condoms. Was he not aware of the Centers for Disease Control’s statement last year that “Condoms do not protect against syphilis, gonorrhea, human papilloma virus, herpes, and most of the other sexually- transmitted diseases”?

General Douglas MacArthur said, “History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.” This must be why Alexis de Tocqueville, the French philosopher and statesman wrote in his masterpiece, “De la democratic en Amerique” (“Democracy in America”) that unlike despotism, liberty cannot govern without faith.”

As parents are given more suitable choices in education, student performances will morrow renewed academic success and moral wholeness.