Very true. That is because there is more to a society than just schools. There is certainly discrimination in hiring and housing. But, as the article points out, the younger generation, educated in the fiercely secular Lycée system, are less segregated than their parents. And people from a culture where the Mosque is the only institution permitted to have power, will have trouble reconciling themselves to a nation where they have both official secularism and a foundation of Catholicism.
A teacher I know in Belgium tells me that, since the advent of smartphones, girls have started to do worse in school - for the first time since coeducation. The phones simply provide too many opportunities to socialize, which is (apparently) more tempting for girls than boys. From my own kids, I guess that’s true.
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