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I apologize in advance if anyone takes this the wrong way, but I mean this in the strictest, classic sense of the word, not as a shallow perjorative:
Given the pervasive (and perverting) influence of 'pop music', television and movies, anyone who thinks that boys and girls can be co-educated and commingled socially in the context of a public school without the danger of sins of concupiscence and untold near occasions for mortal sin is, in all charity, an idiot.
I mean idiot - by definition: A person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years and generally being unable to learn connected speech or guard against common dangers.
It remains the burden of the public 'school', so-called, to prove that coeducation and social commingling is beneficial, let alone MORE beneficial than classical models of education, which were carried on in both parent-led 'homeschooling' models and in parochial school settings.
Although I despise WHAT they teach, credit must be given to the Jєωs, who, in their most conservative sects, continue to insist upon the separation of the sexes for educational and most social purposes.
My wife and I are rabid defenders of home-schooling rights, and I in particular am (almost) as opposed to government infringement upon my DUTIES as a parent and educator as I am opposed to sacrilege in the Church.
I am totally convinced that the mingling of the sexes, even in single-digit age groups, is even more dangerous now than ever in our nation's history, if not the history of the world.
When (as was mentioned in another thread) there are four- and five-year-old girls in minidresses and high-heeled shoes for 'H-ween' costumes, and there are children on YouTube and other sites shown singing and dancing to the filthy lyrics of secular radio, parents have NO business encouraging what amounts to 8 or more hours a day of basically unsupervised inter-gender contact.
Girls have, by necessity of the commands of the Apostles in Scripture, different responsibilities in the home and before God, at least in terms of the ways in which they are able to serve the Church.
Boys, of course, are educated differently because there is not only an expectation of profitable work outside the home (preferably in a trade; Catholics these days had better be training to provide goods and services for a new counterculture if they know what's good for them), but also an expectation of future responsibility in serving the Church, perhaps in a religious vocation, but at the very least in ways that girls are simply not permitted to.
One of the major problems with coeducation is the lowering of the sights of the children, especially of boys, but of both sexes to a great degree nonetheless. When children are routinely exposed to the overtly sɛҳuąƖized, Godless messages of the mass media, they become insensitive to the gentle, beginning nudges of their soul by the Holy Ghost toward a vocation. They imagine themselves only as players in the same game as their 'stars' in TV shows or movies; they no longer see themselves as anyone with any possibility of a higher calling. Religious vocation is often seen as oppressive or the product of a stifled, 'fundamentalist' upbringing, unless, of course, it is a 'calling' to a liberal ideology, which is embraced wholeheartedly by the most powerful backers of public education in history.
(EXAMPLE: MANY public television programs, including those that openly defy and mock the authority of the Church to interpret Scripture, and those aimed at children, are supported by the Helena Rubenstein Foundation. Rubenstein was an entrepreneur and marketer of cosmetic products, and her company was once one of the exclusive suppliers to the major Hollywood makeup departments at studios, thus ensuring her company's continuing relationship with the Jєωιѕн liberal elite who produce such garbage as we see in theaters and on TV today.)
More often than not, children in commingled societies like public schools are presented with ideas like pursuing jobs only for the ultimate goal of the greatest financial gain. This, of course, is due to the Jєωιѕн/Masonic groundwork that has been laid for public education. The idea of the transcendent, the spiritual, the higher life, is verboten as a subject in public schools because there is no expectation of a religious person's being able to contribute tax dollars from their earnings or revenues for their employers.
I could say more, but I must go for now; suffice it to say that coeducation and commingling of the sexes socially, outside the home, is completely the product of those who would both defy (now) and destroy (their eventual goal) the Church.
St. Frances Cabrini, pray for us.
St. John Bosco, pray for us.
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.