On 3/27/13 8:30 AM, Eisboch wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message ...


My memory of "Blackboard Jungle" was that the school *was* co-ed. I
could be wrong about that. Hey, who would want to go to a single-gender
high school, anyway?

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Pretty sure it was a boy's only vocational high school in New York City
although it had at least one female teacher.

It was a novel by Evan Hunter later made into a movie back in the 50's.

I saw the movie when it first came out at the Whalley Theater which,
sadly, is now no longer a theater. I think I was about 11 or 12. My mom
took me to a matinee. I just can't remember whether it was a
single-gender school in the movie. Next time it pops up on cable, I'll
watch it.

Do you recall "Hopkins Grammar School" in New Haven? Private boys'
school. It merged with a private girls school some years ago. I had some
friends who went to Hopkins and we always teased them about their
"School for Monks." The great Hillhouse football/basketball player,
Floyd Little, went to Bordentown Military Prep, an all boys prep school,
to toughen up after "normal" high school, before he went on to Syracuse
University.