Single sex schools?

The debate rages on.Should teenage boys and girls be in the same school?Some say it will pose problems and some say it is a good thing.In September twenty schools will commence a pilot project to change from coeducational schools to single sex schools on a phased basis.That is,the form one intake will be either boys alone or girls alone and at the end of five years the whole school will be of one gender.The intention behind this is really to address the growing "non performance" of boys especially in coeducational schools.It should be noted that single gender secondary schools have been around for over fifty years but they were denominational schools with a firm religious grasp.So is the problem religion,boys or something else?We have o wait and see what this new initiative will reveal and whether this new government will continue with it.