Article: Single-gender classes working for Ewing students.

Byline: Ashlei N. Stevens

Nov. 24--GAFFNEY -- Like most South Carolina public school students, Justin McCraw has been enrolled in classrooms full of boys and girls for the past eight years.

But a month ago, when his parents told him he'd been selected for his school's single-gender instruction program, the 14-year-old wasn't exactly jumping for joy.

"He said 'I don't wanna be in a class that ain't got no girls in it," " his father Phillip McCraw said with a laugh.

The eighth-grader who loves racecars but never liked to study now comes home from John E. Ewing Middle School eager to do homework. And for the first time in his life, he ...

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