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That's trivially not true. Girls do better overall, but it's a long, long way from being bimodal.

Do you have another reason for being against streaming?



If it's trivially untrue find me a Western country where boys generally do better than girls. I'll wait!


As I said, there is a vast overlap between boys and girls. Boys even do better in some subjects, notably mathematics and (some) sciences[1].

In the same way that if we streamed per-subject, there'd still be a significant number of girls in the top set for maths, if we streamed by performance overall, there'd be a lot of boys in the top schools.

Nothing about streaming implies gender segregation, so I'll ask again: do you have another reason for being against it?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/mar/10/boys-widen...


That's why I wrote "generally". There are many countries, subjects, and years of education to compare so you can always find some statistic that bucks the trend.




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