The ACLU, North Carolina Justice Center, and Wake County Choices submitted a letter on Sept. 19, 2012, to the Wake County School Board expressing concerns about public single-sex "leadership academies" that opened this year in Wake County.
"We have concerns that these academies are being organized as single-sex educational environments," the letter reads. "Single-sex education is too often based on the unproven and widely discredited theory that boys and girls learn and develop so differently that they need to be taught separately -- using different teaching techniques. This theory is based on harmful gender stereotypes that are repackaged as 'science.'"
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