European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 16 the stars and stripes wednesday september 6, 1967 boys will be boys. The question As far As educators Are concerned is whether they should be separated from the Are separate classrooms in the offing girls Are All sugar and spice. Also More conscientious compliant methodical and friendlier than their male schoolmates. School Days 67 by Mary Neth staff writer in this Era of electronic teaching aids and Stream lined school buildings some educators seem to be pushing for an idea straight from the Little one room schoolhouse of great grandma s Day. They want to separate the boys from the  want to see that the boys in particular have a better break. As any mom with both a son and daughter knows there is a vast difference in the temperament and intellect of the two. According to or. Frances b e n t z e a education research and program specialist of the . Depart ment of the Interior girls have the Edge when incomes to Early learning ability. At the chronological age of six when most Young sters begin to attend school girls Are approximately 12 months ahead of boys in developmental age. Bythe time they Are nine the differential has increased to 18  our Public school system however say the critics there is Little or no recognition of the difference Between the sexes nor is there any planning for the variations in readiness of children to learn How to behave. A Survey conducted by or. Lois Ellen Batta nation Al Institute of mental health child research psychologist seems to give Points to the one of a kind class room idea. Teachers in a Virginia school system were asked to describe the difference Between the sexes in schoolroom behaviour. Girls were rated 20 per cent belter than the boy sin sticking to a task. They Are More conscientious compliant methodical. They also Are friendlier to the teacher and More attentive. Teachers rated the boys As 35 per cent More hostile domineering aggressive irritable boastful and quarrelsome. Arguments for grouping by sex also come from Thomas b. Lyles principal of Wakefield Forest elementary school Fairfax county a. In a report in the National elementary principal a journal for educators he describes results of a Pilot program in instructional grouping of the  was evidence of More cooperation within an All boy or an All girl class. The Lack of distractions from the opposite sex resulted in better work habits. Motivation was devel oped More easily because it was t necessary to gear class work to the interests of both  along these lines or. Bentzen also notes that since the overwhelming majority of elementary teachers Are women in the neighbourhood of 85 per cent class rooms Are too often organized around a female concept of order conformity and  these circumstances he notes it s easy to understand Why the natural aggressiveness an rebellion against authority typical of boys sometimes results in a much higher delinquency rate  another research consultant Mary Broderick of Tholos Angeles school system notes that mixing up the sexes in the classrooms May result in our having fewer female scientists fewer male artists. She observes that parents and teachers May Force cultural expectations on their youngsters not encourage creativity in boys or scientific curiosity in  conclusion separate schoolroom for the sexes might be of Benefit to both As the development of creative potential could be different More geared to the Peculiar needs of boys and girls and thus give More individual Freedom. Is it True As some see it that we Are punishing Young boys because we do not recognize that their growth of development is slower that we Are in turn shortchanging the girls too not All teachers feel the single sex classes Are Panacea. Among those preferring mixed sexes in class was one who said i believe girls have a quieting influence on  record 50 million answer Bells in Usa by Warren Duffee up staff writer a record total of 50 million american Young sters from kindergarten through High school Are answering the school Bell this fall government experts estimate but the nation s baby Boom apparently is leveling off. The predicted 50 million will be about 500,000above the 49.55 million who actually were enrolled last year in Public and non Public school below the College level. But the apparent slow Down in the birth rate will catch up with the lower grades and perhaps relieve some of the overcrowding by 1970, statisticians of the . Office of education predict. If their calculations Are Correct enrol Mentin kindergarten through the eighth Grade will continue to increase through the fall of 1969,then level off and begin declining in 1970 and 1971. Latest revised projections indicate lower Grade school populations remaining on the decline through 1973. At the same time however High school enrolment is expected to Rise for the same years with predictions of a steady climb from about13 million last year to an estimated 16.1 Mil lion by the fall of 1973. The office of education a part of the health education and welfare hew department at tributes the High school enrolment Rise to Many factors improved economic conditions fewer dropouts better school facilities the Overall population increase and increased pressures incentives and opportunities for High school Stu dents to go on to College. It takes Only a look at the record to see Why the population explosion has hit the schools. In 1939-40, the total Pupil population for kindergarten through High school was Only 24.93 Mil lion. It will be twice that or More this fall. But the real increase did not set in until the world War ii baby Boom hit the classrooms. In the 1949-50 school year total enrolment i below College schools Public and private had risen to Only 25.1 million. But then the steady climb set in with the lower grades far out distancing the High schools in rate of growth for several years a trend the experts predict will be reversed in the years immediately ahead. The total school population was up to 35.3 Mil lion by 1955 and has increased steadily each year since then. By 1960, the total was 42.2 Mil lion and was up to 48.74 million by 1965. The latest hew predictions indicate total sub College enrolment of 51.3 million for the fall of1968, some 51.8 million for 1969, and 52.1 million for 1970. A Peak of 52.3 million Overall is foreseen forthe fall of 1571 and then a leveling to 52.2 Mil lion for 1972 and again for 1973. The 1969-73 predictions include an estimate decline in kindergarten through eighth Grade pupils from 37.3 million in 1969 to 36.1 million for 1973. But corresponding predicted increases in High school Levels from 14.5 million in 1969to 16.1 million for 1973 offset the drop in the lower grades. In any Case the office of education expert Snow look for a fairly stable school population of around 52 million for the Early 70  the Public schools have been expanding explosively with classroom and teacher Short Ages and massive building programs govern ment figures also show parochial and other non Public school enrolment increasing at a similarly explosive rate. The total non Public enrolment was reported at 4.6 million in 1955 and had risen to 6.6 Mil lion by 1965. The estimates for this fall Are slightly less than 7 million and about the same for 1970 and 1973