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This week, the Associated Press reported on our 鈥淭each Kids, Not Stereotypes鈥� campaign challenging unlawful single-sex education programs around the country.

This week, the reported on our 鈥�Teach Kids, Not Stereotypes鈥� campaign challenging unlawful single-sex education programs around the country. Since we launched the campaign in May, school districts in West Virginia and have announced that they would halt their programs, allowing children to have an equal educational experience, no matter their sex.

Single-sex classes exploded in 2006 after the Bush administration relaxed Title IX regulations to allow public schools to separate boys and girls into different classes. Unfortunately, many of the schools that rushed to implement these programs based their curricula on discredited research that was rooted in outdated stereotypes. In the span of a few years, single-sex programs went from being in only about a dozen schools, to being in hundreds鈥�and most of them built on bad science.

. Shy boys who would rather read than play football, or fidgety girls who tend to be loud and rambunctious, are made to feel as though they鈥檙e not 鈥渘ormal,鈥� and parents are frustrated.

The ACLU launched this program because it not only violated kids鈥� rights under Title IX to an equal education, but it also hurt kids in the long run. If we want to do right by America鈥檚 schoolchildren, then teachers should be prepared to work with kids鈥� different learning styles and needs as the unique individuals they are...not based on crude generalizations of how boys and girls should act.

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