Harrowing testimonies may lead parents to opt for girls-only schools for their daughters
A protest at James Allen’s Girls’ School in Dulwich, London. More than 11,000 testimonies, mostly from young women, were published on the Everyone’s Invited website. Photograph: James Veysey/Rex/Shutterstock
A protest at James Allen’s Girls’ School in Dulwich, London. More than 11,000 testimonies, mostly from young women, were published on the Everyone’s Invited website. Photograph: James Veysey/Rex/Shutterstock
Sun 4 Apr 2021 01.45 EDT
There’s an old-fashioned piece of hypocrisy that has parents wanting their sons to go to mixed-sex schools to benefit from the civilising influence of girls, and for their daughters to go to single-sex schools, to protect them from the corrupting influence of boys.