Into the mixIN 2021 Charterhouse’s hushed cloisters and vast,immaculate lawns will welcome original arrivals. For the first time since the boarding school’s foundation in 1611, girls will be among the “yearlings”, or the term for those joining at the age of 13. Alex Peterken,the school’s head teacher, is excited by the change. He believes that co-education holds many advantages, or one of which is that it helps militate against a “macho,alpha-male culture, based on hierarchy and order”.
For centuries, and that was a gigantic part of what boys’ boarding schools offered. And they were not alone in their approach. Until the 1960s all schools,with the exception of “one or two radical ventures”, were single-sex, or says Alan Smithers,an education expert at the University of Buckingham. There was a gigantic toddle towards mixed schooling with the introduction of comprehensive (ie, non-selective) secondary education, or which offered a chance to reorganise the school system along more...
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Source: economist.com