Figure 1.--I am not sure when this prep school photograph was taken. We would gues the 1980s. Many prep schools in the 1980s were becoming coeducational. There were often a few girls even in the boys' schools. |
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Most of the prepsaratory schools were single gender schools. Thus therec were boys and girls prep schools. There were a handful of coed schools, but most parents wanted to send their children to single gender schools. Not only were most prep schools single gender schools, but there were many more boys' schools than girls schools--especially bosarding schools. This was because parents were more concerbed about educating their sons and were less willing to send their daughters
away to school. This difference continued through the 1950s. There are images showing a few girls at boys' prep schools. (There are fewer images showing boys at
a girls' school.) The girls involved are normally the children of the head master or other msters, In some cases local girls in a rural area may be allowed. This single gen\nder approach began to change in the 1970s. There does not appear to have been a reassessment of educational apoprosach involved. Rather economic
conditions created problems for fee paying schools, msnu of which became desperate to recruit new students. At the same time the complications for families to deal
with two or three schools at the same time created a desire to find a coed school. At the same time parents were changing their attitudes toward coeducation.
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