Federal change expected that will see trend grow further
ATLANTA - In the sixth-grade class, the boys are making robots — more than a dozen students stand around work stations and chat as they cut cardboard with scissors, or glance at comic books for inspiration.
Down the hall, a room full of girls is working — quietly and independently — on the same project.
The recent scenes at Atlanta’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School may become more common in the coming years as a federal regulations change is expected to make it easier for public schools to experiment with single-gender schools and classrooms.
