Last November I wrote a column proposing that boys should have to take a test to qualify for being allowed to be schooled with girls. Of two mothers, one said that girls could learn to survive in a men's world only by dealing with boys at an early age: that she had so much trouble handling her male colleagues because she went to a girls' school, and she had sent her daughter to a coeducational school. Another mother wrote just the opposite: that she would never have succeeded so well in an IIM and later in professional life if she had not been sheltered in a girls' school. But she said something else that was interesting: that parents should also have to qualify to send a child to school. That set me thinking.
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