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Teacher Sia Goutzas wanted to send her three girls to a co-ed school. Single-sex education may have made sense, she says, when men became workers and women wives, but those days are over.
“It’s insane that we are still segregating genders,” she says. “I don’t know why we can’t send girls to Sydney Grammar, or boys to St Catherine’s. For me it should be a natural part of schooling,” Goutzas says.
But in the part of the eastern suburbs where Goutzas lives, there are few co-ed options; even the public schools are single sex. So, in the end, her daughters went to a Catholic girls’ school.