Robin Gilbert didn't set out to confront gender stereotypes when she
split up the boys and girls at her elementary school in rural
southwestern Idaho.
But that's exactly what happened, with her Middleton Heights
Elementary now among dozens of public schools nationwide being targeted
by the American Civil Liberties Union in a bitter struggle over whether
single-sex learning should be continued. Under pressure, single-sex
programs have been dropped at schools from Missouri to Louisiana.
"It doesn't frustrate me," Gilbert said of the criticism, "but it makes the work harder."
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