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First, I go to an all boys school, so we have mixers every month...The ratio of guys to girls is something like 1:7.

So an all boys school has mixed (pardon the pun) mixers?

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First, I go to an all boys school,

Oh man, poor guy. These things still exist in our day and age ?

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Quote: Original post by swimmerfreak
First, I go to an all boys school,

Oh man, poor guy. These things still exist in our day and age ?

You really think people will stop passing up opportunities to abuse children?

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Quote: Original post by swimmerfreak
First, I go to an all boys school,

Oh man, poor guy. These things still exist in our day and age ?

You really think people will stop passing up opportunities to abuse children?

What is that supposed to mean? I went to an all-boys high school and it was a blast! You'd be able to fully express yourself as a growing man, and there's much more liberty to what you could say and do. Nerds weren't picked on but valued as the "providers" to exams and homeworks, and to make our school name better in nationwide competitions. Relationships between seniors and freshmen are just like fellow classmates. The dumb ones are laughing materials. Good looking or ugly are treated the same. As opposed to a co-ed school where you'd shy away from the girls, competitions between boys who could attract the most beautiful girls in school, and whatever crap and drama going on.

At least in my school, the teachers fully understood who we were. Heck, my friends and I were given the key to the computer lab! We'd play Starcraft after school every day! and didn't go home until dark. We even sometimes came on the weekend to the school just to hang out! Girlfriends are no problem. We'd hang out with the girls from the all-girls schools. Sometimes we had events where students from other schools would come and join.

I have heard stories from people how they had horrible high school experience because of the drama. It seems like unless they are popular and a jock, high school is a horrible place for these people. Maybe it's just my high school, I don't know and I hope not, but it was a Catholic all-boys high school.

Quote: You'd be able to fully express yourself as a growing man, and there's much more liberty to what you could say and do. Nerds weren't picked on but valued as the "providers" to exams and homeworks, and to make our school name better in nationwide competitions. Relationships between seniors and freshmen are just like fellow classmates. The dumb ones are laughing materials. Good looking or ugly are treated the same.

I fail to see how any of that is influenced by a school's gender orientation.

I also fail to see why laughing at dumb kids is desirable.

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Quote: You'd be able to fully express yourself as a growing man, and there's much more liberty to what you could say and do. Nerds weren't picked on but valued as the "providers" to exams and homeworks, and to make our school name better in nationwide competitions. Relationships between seniors and freshmen are just like fellow classmates. The dumb ones are laughing materials. Good looking or ugly are treated the same.

I fail to see how any of that is influenced by a school's gender orientation.

Maybe I am wrong, but there wasn't any competition between us because there were no girls to impress. Nobody ever wanted to make himself more popular than the others because he didn't need to. We basically did whatever each individual wanted to do with no peer pressure.

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I also fail to see why laughing at dumb kids is desirable.

We didn't laugh at his expense. The stupid kid sometimes would make stupid comments during class, and we'd just tell him how stupid he was and to go back to the 3rd grade. Nobody took that offensively.

My school is just like alnite described his. I get a lot more freedom
and a lot less competition at school, then at middle school.
The only competition really is sports, but im a pretty good athlete,
(guess which sport, ;P) so I don't have to worry about it much,
except for convincing my friends Im straight even though I wear a
speedo every day at practice around a bunch of guys.

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Maybe I am wrong, but there wasn't any competition between us because there were no girls to impress. Nobody ever wanted to make himself more popular than the others because he didn't need to. We basically did whatever each individual wanted to do with no peer pressure.

Yeah, but dude - there are no girls ! My high school time was already annoying and boring enough, I think that without girls I would've become insane.

But seriously, about this "impress the girls by being the star of the baseball team", that's mostly an American thing. You don't find that over here, at least not to the extend usually portrayed in US highschool movies ;)

Where I come from, men thrive on competition. A high school where everyone was equal sounds terribly boring. The real world is unequal and unfair. The sooner people realize that the better. It's what allows you to get ahead and get what you want in life.

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Where I come from, men thrive on competition. A high school where everyone was equal sounds terribly boring. The real world is unequal and unfair. The sooner people realize that the better. It's what allows you to get ahead and get what you want in life.

Except that what is true in high school is usually the complete opposite of what is true in life.