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This week, after a tweet by feminist Abi Bechtel went viral, . Word is getting out: Sex stereotyping will not fly in 2015.

If you think gender-separation of toys is bad, what about sex separation of kids? Consider the following examples drawn from the Beloit Area School District in Wisconsin, which had separated boys and girls into separate academic classes:

1. Materials sent home to parents claimed that girls 鈥渓earn better sitting down,鈥� while 鈥渨hen a young boy sits down, his brain turns off鈥� and that boys require 鈥渁ctivities where [they] can move around鈥� while girls require 鈥渁 quiet, calm classroom environment.鈥�
2. An informational packet distributed to parents claimed that 鈥済irls tend to 鈥榳hisper鈥� while boys tend to 鈥榮hout鈥欌�� and cautioned that boys have 鈥渁 shorter attention span than girls.鈥�
3. Teacher training materials claimed that boys 鈥渁re instinctive/impulsive鈥� while girls 鈥渞ead emotions and analyze the emotion.鈥�
4. The same materials instructed teachers to use different instructional techniques for boys and girls 鈥� for example, to 鈥渦se a loud voice鈥� and 鈥渟hooting questions鈥� for boys and to 鈥渕ake eye contact and smile鈥� for girls.
5. The materials suggested different approaches for teaching literature to girls, advising teachers to ask boys 鈥渨hat would you DO if鈥� and girls 鈥淗ow might/would you FEEL if鈥︹��
6. For math, teachers were advised to 鈥渄o NUMBERS for numbers鈥� sake鈥� for boys but to 鈥渄emonstrate RELEVANCE to the real world鈥� for girls.
7. In social studies, teachers were advised to discuss 鈥渆xciting event[s],鈥� 鈥渇ocus on REAL men,鈥� and 鈥淗ighlight technical details and use maps鈥� when teaching boys, but to ask girls 鈥渉ow would you feel if鈥︹�� and use 鈥渁rt/music/literature.鈥�
8. They advised using different techniques to motivate boys and girls such as forming 鈥渢eams鈥� and using 鈥渉ierarchy鈥� and 鈥渃ompetition鈥� for boys, while 鈥済et[ting] girls to 鈥渃are鈥� because they are motivated by 鈥渂eing accepted, liked, loved.鈥�

Refusing to take these stereotypes 鈥渟itting down,鈥� the 老澳门开奖结果 and the 老澳门开奖结果 of Wisconsin filed a complaint with the Department of Education鈥檚 Office for Civil Rights against Beloit and two other Wisconsin school districts cataloguing this evidence, which was drawn from documents produced by the schools. The complaints were among those filed in districts across the country (four in Florida, one in Austin, TX, and one in Idaho) as part of the Teach Kids, Not Stereotypes campaign, which aims to stop the proliferation of single-sex classrooms that intentionally treat kids differently based on whether they are a boy or a girl. That鈥檚 the very definition of sex discrimination.

In the wake of the campaign, OCR issued a making clear that schools instituting single-sex classrooms may not 鈥渞ely on overbroad generalizations about the different talents, capacities, or preferences of either sex.鈥�

Just last week, we learned that after the agency launched its investigation in Beloit, the district agreed to abandon the single-sex classrooms in all its elementary schools and submit to monitoring by the federal agency 鈥� making it the last of the three districts we filed complaints against in Wisconsin to eliminate the unlawful single-sex classes. (In a related win, the New Jersey Department of Education agreed last week to abandon ill-advised regulations that would have relaxed state rules for instituting single-sex classrooms after the 老澳门开奖结果 of New Jersey pointed out numerous legal problems with the proposal.)

But more work remains to be done.

Many of our complaints remain pending with OCR, despite widespread evidence of blatant sex stereotypes and the agency鈥檚 clear directives that this type of program is generally illegal. To make matters worse, some school districts are on their stereotype-based programs. Now is the time for federal civil rights officials to build on the victory in Wisconsin and require that the single-sex classrooms in our remaining complaints be discontinued.

If major corporate retailers are finally beginning to understand that there is no excuse for sex stereotyping kids, then it鈥檚 long past time for our public schools to get the same message: Students deserve to be educated based on their individual needs and interests, not based on their sex.