![]() About five miles down the road, 146 sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders are midway through their morning studies at the Julia Morgan School for Girlswhich didn't exist until a parents' group led by DeBare launched it in 1999.ĭeBare's campaignpart of a nationwide renaissance for all-girls elementary and secondary schoolswas prompted in part by the birth of her own daughter 10 years ago. "Good question," DeBare muses over tea in her living room days before the publication of her book, Where Girls Come First: The Rise, Fall, and Surprising Revival of Girls' Schools (J.P. ![]() How, then, did DeBare, a long-time newspaper reporter, wind up spending a good chunk of the past decade not only writing an exhaustive history of such schools, but actually helping found a successful private middle school for girls? Beyond that, they didn't register on my consciousness much." "I had the impression they were snooty and elite. "The whole girls' school thing seemed kind of precious," recalls DeBare, who now lives in Oakland, California. In fact, she says, if her own parents had ever tried to send her to one, she'd probably have run away from home.īecause she grew up in New York City, where she attended a private coed high school, she knew a bit about prestigious single-sex institutions like Brearley, Chapin, and Spence, but she had no desire to join their ranks. ![]() ![]() Until a few years ago, she'd never set foot in an all-girls school. Ilana DeBare '80 has an odd confession to share. ![]()
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