Girl talk: Same gender classroom creates a buzz
Nakisha Marcelus, 10, right, and the other girls in her class line up to go to another room for art last week at Orangewood Elementary School in Fort Myers. The girls are in a gender-separated class that is part of a Lee County School District pilot program to test the success of such classrooms. A bill introduced in the State Senate, which mirrors a bill in the House, would make such classrooms officially legal if passed.
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Chasity Armstrong, 11, listens to the teacher during class last week at Orangewood Elementary School in Fort Myers. Armstrong is one of a handful of girls that is in gender-separated class that is part of a Lee County School District pilot program to test the success of such classrooms. A bill introduced in the State Senate, which mirrors a bill in the House, would make such classrooms officially legal if passed.
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Dajaa Peete, 10, from left, Dominique Collins, 11, Reina Penaloza, 12, Emily Coyne, 11, and Chasity Armstrong, 11, get out their class work from their desks during class last week at Orangewood Elementary School in Fort Myers. The girls are part of a gender-separated class taught by Hana Ahmad. The class is as part of a Lee County School District pilot program to test the success of such classrooms. A bill introduced in the State Senate, which mirrors a bill in the House, would make such classrooms officially legal if passed.
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Nakisha Marcelus, 10, right, and Gabriella Rivera, 11, listen to the teacher during class last week at Orangewood Elementary School in Fort Myers. The two are part of a gender-separated class that is part of a Lee County School District pilot program to test the success of such classrooms. A bill introduced in the State Senate, which mirrors a bill in the House, would make such classrooms officially legal if passed.
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Hana Ahmad, left, talks to Nakisha Marcelus, 10, right, about her homework, during class last week at Orangewood Elementary School in Fort Myers. Ahmad's class is a gender-separated class that is part of a Lee County School District pilot program to test the success of such classrooms. A bill introduced in the State Senate, which mirrors a bill in the House, would make such classrooms officially legal if passed.
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Hana Ahmad, left, talks to Dominique Collins, right, about her homework, during class last week at Orangewood Elementary School in Fort Myers. Ahmad's class is a gender-separated class that is part of a Lee County School District pilot program to test the success of such classrooms. A bill introduced in the State Senate, which mirrors a bill in the House, would make such classrooms officially legal if passed.
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Hana Ahmad, top center, is teaching her second gender-separated class as part of a Lee County School District pilot program to test the success of such classrooms. A bill introduced in the State Senate, which mirrors a bill in the House, would make such classrooms officially legal if passed. Last year Ahmad taught a class that was all boys, this year it is all girls. The school reported positive observations from last year's class and this one is doing well too, Ahmad says.
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