Livre d'Or

My mixed sex 11-16 school only offered double award GCSE science, whereas the all girls school my parents didn't really consider because they didn't want single sex education for us offered separate sciences. I don't think my decision to drop maths and science despite being good at them were related to gender (if anything that would have been a reason to do them) more that I'd got bored because I hadn't been stretched (something my female maths teacher in years 7&8 had done and male head of dept for next 3 years didn't, just let me plod on getting further and further ahead of rest of the class). Not sure whether I'd've been better socially at girls school, possibly in the specific that my best friend from sixth was there so we'd've met sooner. I would also have done Latin.

So I think I would rather my parents had considered both schools rather than ruling one out on principle. Interestingly at time my school had very good head and the girls school a poor one, but both left within a year and their new one was better and didn't end up in the Daily Fail for having an affair with the music teacher...