Maine School Set To Abandon Boys-Only Third Grade Program

The Lewiston (ME) Sun Journal (5/3, Steeves) reports, "The students in a boys-only third-grade class" at Camden-Rockport Elementary School in Lewiston, Maine, "likely will mix back in with the girls and their other male peers next year. The local curriculum committee plans to ask the school board to reintegrate the boys." The piece quotes assistant superintendent Elaine Nutter saying, "It has been very positive for the boys in the classroom. As we look at the end of the year we will look at learning for all of these students. They have done very well and it has a very nice climate to it when you go into the classroom. We feel it's been very effective. It was not intended to be a long-term program."