It&#039;s well documented that boys and girls learn differently, and that boys are not developmentally ready to take on the same academic challenges as girls are in the early elementary years. As a result, you find many more girls in the advanced reading groups and more boys in the remedial reading groups at the elementary level. Kids learn early to see themselves and others as &quot;smart&quot; or &quot;dumb&quot; based on these distinctions, when most of the time it&#039;s really a matter of developmental readiness and not intellectual capacity. Thus starts an early pattern of boys feeling inferior which can then lead to a variety of behavioral issues. I support the idea of offering a single-sex learning environment where boys (of any color) can learn and develop confidence at a developmentally-appropriate pace.