I went to all boys primary and was petrified of girls all through secondary school. Even at uni it took me a year-and-a-bit to be completely relaxed round them. Let's face it, the most important thing for a bloke is confidence around birds (apart from CPFC obviously), don't harm that for no real reason.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

The whole talking to girls debate is strange. I went to an all boys school and am now married first in my group of uni mates and the second one to get married next week also went to all boys school!

Between ages 12-16 talking to girls isn't important anyway if we're honest and is jut a distraction.

Go for the school which has the best education on offer.

Life is an education, in life we mix, same should be said with schools. Most girls are more mature than boys going through school and especially nowadays boys and girls hang out together and reign the boys in a bit. Would never put my children in a same sex school as they need to mix and learn from each other.

We need to bring back Grammar Schools, birching and teachers that aren't complete benders and leave the profession with 'stress' after teaching finger painting to five year olds for four years.

I say to these placard wielding malcontents, try getting USD 10m out of Russia to pay service providers before contracts are voided. Then tell me what stress is.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

I went to an all boys senior school from 1965 to 1972 after failing my 11+ exam.

Our school was streamed A1, A2, B1, B2. A1 classes were GCE targeted, A2 CSE targetted, B1 were taught trades and B2 were usually playing truant and/or smoking by the bike sheds or fighting another school.

Academically I did very well with 8 GCE O Levels and 2 A Levels, Maths and Applied Maths... I had offers from 2 Universities but chose not to go and went to work at 18.

With regard to the ladies I think it did hold me back.

I was shy and lacking in confidence up until I was 21 and then the ladies didn't know what had hit them!

Shame was Mandy Blunden, a gorgeous young blonde who lived over our back fence got fed up waiting for me to ask her out and was already engaged to a bloke when I got my mojo working.

My son has gone to a mixed school and has done very well, I went to a mixed school and did terribly in spite of being blessed with decent brains because I spent the whole time trying to impress girls. I guess it comes down to the boy himself - if you think (like my son) he is strong willed and savvy enough to do what is right, go mixed as he will benefit from the better more balanced socialisation. If you think that he will fawn over birds the whole time and not do any work, send him to the all boys. I dont personally think that a more or less macho environment etc should be considered a factor, bottom line is kids (and adults come to think of it) can be d*cks in either environment. Personally I would expect less machoism is an all boys schools as there are no girls there to impress but this is a guess based on literally no facts and just how I would have expected myself to behave. Literally every stupid thing I did at school (and my life now I think about it) was done with "is this going to help me pull" in mind. Sad but true.