CO-EDUCATION

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 81, 5 April 1923, Page 4

CO-EDUCATION

TO THI IDITOK.

Sir, —It appears from Miss' Coftd's let ter of 2nd April that the condensed report of her paper did not convey her purpose, which was to elaborate the proposition that "it would be a mistake to convert all secondary schools into the co-eduentional. technical college type"— a proposition with which I suppose every one will agree. The charge made by Miss Coad, for which I asked her grounds, was that "in such institutions the girls were taken more or lees incidentally," It now seems that, in Miss Coad's experience, girls are taken "incidentally" in schools wheri co-education is attempted* in many subjects but cannot b» carried out. lam not acquainted with any schools of this type, and it is not my concern to defend them; but I may point out that none of our technical high schools are co-educational in the strict sense of the term. They, are properly '^nixed schools," for which the school life and traditions are greatly influenced by the fact that the school contains both sexes, yet for some subjects, and indeed for some courses, boys and I girls are necessarily taught separately. Miss Coad deprecates references to America, and then proceeds to say that "in America some of the most famous coeducational school* are now separating I the boys and'girls." Will she be good enough to name these schools? The list will be of great interest. —I am, etc., JOHN H. HOWELL. 3rd April.