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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to step Mom Never told you?

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Speaker 1: From house Stop works dot Com. Hey there, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. This is Kristen and this is Molly.

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Speaker 1: And guys, we have got some exciting homeschool anecdotes coming up.

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Speaker 1: All right, Molly, I don't know that they're that exciting,

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Speaker 1: but I think I think I've told you before on

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Speaker 1: the podcast, Molly, that that I am a product of

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Speaker 1: home school. Yes, if you knew me, listeners, it's probably

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Speaker 1: not that surprising because thanks to homeschool, I'm a little

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Speaker 1: because especially in middle school, you know, boys would have

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Speaker 1: And there's just a lot more going on in those classrooms.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I made it through. Okay, Yeah it

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Speaker 1: wasn't the ring doorsman. I was hoping for Kristen. But

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Speaker 1: you know, we do have to make do with these distractions.

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Speaker 1: But there is this new school of thought that UM holds.

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Speaker 1: nine that I explained earlier that banns sex scrimination in

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Speaker 1: of a slippery slope. As soon as you start segregating

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Speaker 1: even even deeper segregations. Right, And the National Organization of

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Speaker 1: Women has come out and said that this just reinforces

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Speaker 1: our worst gender stereotypes. You know, what does it due

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Speaker 1: to a young girl to go into school and be told,

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Speaker 1: you know, you're different in these ways, since you're going

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Speaker 1: to separate you because of it. Right, Because these neurological

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Speaker 1: necessarily walk into seventy five degree classroom and feel more

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Speaker 1: Things like that. So I think to answer our question

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Speaker 1: which is more effective, we just don't know yet. I

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Speaker 1: think that it's very uh individualized, and parents have to

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Speaker 1: to have greater success. But I think that's probably true

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Speaker 1: if any educational environment, if you've got your parents support,

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Speaker 1: saying that single sex education is more it's more effective

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Speaker 1: and kids are learning more because since these programs are elective,

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Speaker 1: you're going to have more active parents who are selecting

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Speaker 1: that might be indicative of simply a more active and

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Speaker 1: involved parent. Well, it's a tough topic, um, but I

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Speaker 1: for kids, so we'll keep an eye on that. Time

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