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British schools and education: everything you wanted to know

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The Difference Between Girls and Boys School

Boys were favoured, partly because a some of the earlier foundations were associated as well with manat with monasteries. So ifit was going to be men who went into those advanced forms of work, and women weren't likely to, then that would affect e attitudes to am schooling and provision over many centuries. But yet, expectations of different lives after school, i think, was a big, e was a big factor, as well as assumptions that er girls might end upam doing more in a domestic sphere in later life which they wouldn't need school for.

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