The school I went to was all male until the year before I started, phasing them in (senior girls only at first, juniors later) so that my year was the last to get girls (for the first 3 of my 5 years there, it was all male).

Single sex schools probably do have advantages in many respects - academic results I suspect, as well as eliminating an obvious distraction for most of the students. On the other hand, particularly in boarding schools like mine was, I'm sure lack of exposure to the opposite sex is a disadvantage in social development. Maybe that's why I ended up all sick and twisted hanging out on sites like this ;-P

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Was that to make room for women? In that case, don't you think it is fair to share the time?
No, it wasn't to free up room - it was because the rule was interpreted as requiring exactly the same level of funding - so if 60 guys who want to play football get a $10,000 budget for equipment etc, the 3 girls who want to play have to get the same resources - despite that being absurd and impractical. It's exactly the mistake you mentioned earlier, confusing fairness with identical results, so they would have to spend as much on a tiny or even non-existent women's sport as on the men's one with actual people involved.