Coeducation at Episcopal High School: Perspectives and Specifics

These files were taken directly from the EHS 1993 magazine. These pages are devoted to the opinions of various EHS community members regarding coeducation. While some clearly express their excitement and enthusiasm, others hold a more negative and pessimistic stance. 

In this clip, Ms. Caslow reflects on her experiences being one of the first female faculty members at Episcopal and encountering difficult situations. 

Ms. Caslow touches upon the classroom setting in the early 1990's after girls had just been admitted. She also speaks about the inbalance that was present in terms of boys dominating in math and science subjects and girls hesitating to take those classes. 

Here, she explains how the female culture has shifted through the years since 1991. She believes the culture has changed for the better. 

She speaks about how the school had to react and change during the first few years of coeducation, simply because not everything was perfectly designed in advance. 

Here, Ms. Caslow speaks on the rhetoric over time surrounding female athletics at EHS. She states that, for many years, girls athletics were not held to the same standard by any means as the boys' athletics were. 

She emphasizes how strong the first groups of girls were and how truly difficult it was for them to experience such challenges at such a young age. 

Ms. Caslow shares her opinion on coeducation vs. single-sex education as a whole. She emphasizes that she attended Georgetown Visitation, a single-sex high school, and that for her that was the best choice. She believes that choosing to attend coed or single-sex schools is up to each individual, and that there are benefits to both environments. 

In this video clip Dr. Miller explains what position he held during the process of coeducation. 

Dr. Miller on why coeducation was necessary for the school at the time. 

Dr. Miller shares his opinion on the common fear that EHS would lose its "special qualities" by admitting girls. 

Dr. Miller on how the classroom setting changed the first few years that there were girls. 

In this clip, Dr. Miller talks about the differences between both of his daughters' experiences at EHS, with Cassie graduating in 1995 and Isabel graduating in 2017. 

Dr. Miller emphasizes how "tough" and athletically talented the first group of girls was. 

Dr. Miller claims that accepting girls raised the academic level of the school. 

In this clip, he explains how the structure of the school had to change in order to accomodate for girls. 

In this final clip, Dr. Miller explains that the faculty was virtually unanimous when it came to coeducation - nearly all of his colleagues supported it.