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By John
That wet smack you heard was 10,000 or so friends and alumni of Virginia Military Institute fainting dead away upon seeing the cover story of a recent New York Times Magazine: "Should Boys and Girls Be Taught Separately?" The piece features charming pictures of pupils in Brooklyn, Harlem, and Foley, Ala. — wearing uniforms, no less."Public education," the magazine reports, "is embracing the idea that boys and girls should be taught separately — and differently." If so, then it is simply catching on to what defenders of VMI's single-sex admissions policy argued for many years. Gender separation, the article reports, "is now gaining traction in American public schools, in response to both the desire of parents to have more choice ... and the separate education crises girls and boys have been widely reported to experience."
VMI, of course, was hounded all the way to the Supreme Court for recognizing that some boys and some girls can benefit from different pedagogical approaches at different stages of development.
Apparently the supposed bastion of knuckle-dragging sexism was simply ahead of its time.
— The Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Old Tanker, my friend, VMI is a state-run military school. Hence the reason the case went to the Supreme Court: could a publicly funded school really bar women from attending?
Take a look this post at Skippy's website for some more detail and discussion...
Old Tanker,
Another reason for the SCOTUS getting involved was the "separate but equal" argument. Virginia had many all-female schools, to include one that was converted into an all-female military college. This line of argument was what was fed to us in 1990.
What the times covered was already known in 1990 since all-female schools existed and continue to exist. All of this was a pre-text to break the Good Ole Boys' Club.
That said, any effort to make VMI all-male will have significant pushback; enough to prevent it from happening. My two cents...
The bridge only goes one way. Once you go down the wrong path to coeducation, you can never go back. Besides, the feminists are banking on dinosaurs like me, who got to experience the friendship, bonding, and uniques experience that came from the all male cadet experience-will probably die off soon enough. Those left will no longer no what they missed.
I will submit that all the money that was spent in taking the case to the Supreme Court was money well spent. By fighting integration tooth and nail-VMI retained the support of its alumni who would have stopped giving money if the college had folded of its own volition. By fighting tooth and nail-Alumni could in good conscience still give money to the college. I'll bet the endowment is bigger than ever and a lot of that money came from guys like me who hate the idea of women at the college.
Old Tanker, my friend, VMI is a state-run military school.
My bad...(this is where I feel silly for not doing the most basic of research)....one question though, are VMI instructors military or NEA members? Compared to some of the teachers I worked with I would LOVE to teach in a place like that!!!
Also, my comment was meant to be sarcastic (which I believe was taken that way) I have absolutely no problem with all male, or all female schools.
Many of the profs are prior military, but there is no requirement to be so. Professors receive a commission in the VA Militia, and wear Army uniforms with VA insignia. One of my Rats got a job in admissions after he graduated, and thus pinned on captain's bars before I did. I gave him a pretty solid ration of shit for that one.
Do VMI guys have not so polite name for the uniformed professors. Ours was SCUM-standing for South Carolina Unorganized Militia. It was always odd to see some prof with long hair wearing the Army green uniform poorly...........
It was never about any higher principles, regardless of statements or protestations.
They hate men, and particularly military men.
This is and always was about destroying an integral component of social fabric, and eventually the society itself.
It is an abomination to take our wives, daughters and sisters and utilize them for a purpose that denigrates them (just like using fine linen for toilet paper denigrates the linen.)
Men are constructed for war; women are not. Yes, you can force them into the mold, by indoctrination and mythological dezinformatsia from the time they are born, even to the point where they now believe it and want it.
It is still an abomination.
It was never about any higher principles, regardless of statements or protestations.
They hate men, and particularly military men.
This is and always was about destroying an integral component of social fabric, and eventually the society itself.
It is an abomination to take our wives, daughters and sisters and utilize them for a purpose that denigrates them (just like using fine linen for toilet paper denigrates the linen.)
Men are constructed for war; women are not. Yes, you can force them into the mold, by indoctrination and mythological dezinformatsia from the time they are born, even to the point where they now believe it and want it.
It is still an abomination.
Skippy,
When I was at the I we would call them The Virginia Militia(disorganized), or Virgina's Play Army.
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That's because VMI is a "Private School" and therefore not qualified to make that distinction. Only the "experts" in "public education" are allowed to say such things and expose such truths..........
(I am a recovering "public educator")