1) If you had siblings of an opposite sex did you find that by going to separate highschools it had a detrimental effect on your relationship or did it enhance your relationship not being in each others pockets? - I was an only child for most of my schooling life and have this fantasty vision in my head that my children would really look out for each other, support each other etc in high school and that going single sex would cease this.
I went to co-ed primary and secondary schools for the entire 12 years, but just wanted to stick my head in regarding the sibling question as I thought you might be interested. My little brother and I attended the same schools and to be honest, apart from the first six or so weeks of my brother starting grade 1 (when I used to go down to his classroom at lunchtime and hang out with him as I was worried about him adjusting, eventually his teacher told me ever-so-kindly to go away and let him make his own friends), we had nothing to do with each other. By the time he started high school (I was in year 11 by then), the only time I saw him during school hours was when he'd come chasing me for tuckshop money. I never knew what he was up to, nor did he know what I was doing... the whole 'sticking up for each other' and what not didn't happen for us at all - we'd only find out that he got in a fight, or my boyfriend had publicly humiliated me by dumping me in front of all his mates etc, at 3:15 when we got home, kwim?
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