Boarding Schools for Girls

In the aftermath of a debate over whether or not to open a boys-only school in Toronto, Canada, the citys education director has revealed plans to develop a mentoring program for female students.

An Oct. 25 article by Jenny Yuen of Sun Media provided the following details on the potential for a girls program in Toronto:

After much heated debate over the possibility of boys-only schools earlier this week, Toronto public schools might be getting a girls-only mentoring program, according to a Twitter post from Chris Spence, Toronto District School Board's education director.

In the Tweet, Spence writes: "Soon we'll be launching the Girls Only initiative. Stay tuned for more information!"

"It makes sense to do this for the girls, to provide them with some strong role models," Spence told the Sunday Sun yesterday. "We haven't brought it forward just yet and part of our plan is to launch it in November."

The program -- called Project G.O. (Girls Only) -- will be brought to the board next month and its purpose is to provide positive role models for girls.

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A study released this week found that teen pregnancy rates are dropping faster in Canada than they are in the United States. From 1996 to 2006, rates fell by nearly 37 percent in Canada, and 25 percent in America.

Like [Alex] McKay, [Louise] Moody believes falling teen pregnancy rates are a result of better-informed young people making smarter choices about sex, but they also reflect young women who see a future for themselves that might include something other than motherhood, she says.

In her experience, many of the young women who choose to become parents aren’t following the ‘traditional trajectory’ through school to a career, she says, and they often lack role-models or stable homes. [Source: CanWest News Service]

According to the same study, teen birth rates fell in England and Sweden as well, but the declines were not as significant. Of course,teen pregnancy remains a persistent problem in all of the nations involved in the study.

 

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