As this Daily Telegraph Journalist shows, the learning curve of schools that have turned ‘co-ed’ (taking boys and girls) has been a steep one: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationopinion/10576886/A-school-trip-that-went-a-little-too-far.html
The article alludes to the sad outcome of a too close relationship between boys and girls at school, which is the mistreatment of girls by boys ‘just looking to have fun’ and the untold tale of schoolgirl abortions, which can then scar a young woman for life.
Catholic boarding schools 