A question of...

In the beginning of November I found an article titled Pupils excel when boys, girls split up: Principal

I wanted to discuss some of the things it brought up.

Setup:
Glenmerry Elementary School in the southeastern section of British Columbia.
Girls were scoring higher on tests than boys and so the staff decided to separate the genders except for the classes of music, French and one phys-ed class.

Results:
They, (currently in grade 7) have excelled on provincial scores in the past 3 years hitting an all-time high.
The performance of the boys has now even exceeded the girls in some areas.

I just wondered what this made you think of? Just given this info is there a reason that jumps out at you?

Stated reasons:

Girls ask more questions, boys are more task oriented and more self-centred. Boys worry about themselves while girls worry about the group. Segregating them took away these social pressures.

My thoughts: I don't have too much to say about the results but the stated reasons jumped out at me. The first point about asking more questions or being more about themselves I guess makes some sense. It's saying maybe that girls might interrupt more often and boys don't seem to learn that way. That boys prefer to do it by doing it and figuring it out themselves?

The 2nd point though is sorta odd. It seems to equate all girls as being essentially equal in this regard as opposed to boys. I don't know, I am home sick today so maybe I am not stating this fully concretely but it seems a bit off putting that end part in there. I wonder that there still isn't some other benefit than test scores lost by segregating?

But so far the results seem to be good right?