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The obvious answer to the question of whether boys and girls should be taught separately is "No."
This is simply because we live in a world where gender is more complicated and less black-and-white than simply girl and boy. Nevermind the fact that 1 in 100 babies is born with sexually ambiguous genitalia. Nevermind the fact that the number of transsexual and intersexed people is significantly higher than anyone is willing to admit.
There are a whole lot of reasons not to segregate public classrooms. But the fact that a gender dichotomy is a social construction in the first place seems like a good place to start.