I really wish "educationalists", rampant fluffy liberals, psychobabbleists and general meddlers would stop pissing about with education.
If you taught kids only the things they were interested in, you'd end up with a majority of school leavers who couldn't spell (oh hang on... er...), couldn't add up (well, OK, you got me there too), didn't have a clue about any other language than English (again, you've got me), had no idea about any scientific (science is evil and should be feared!) principles at all (OK, you're winning by a mile now), but could tell you about ghetto rap fashion, what a healthy-balanced diet is (but not necessarily follow one), how to design a Playstation advert... in short, no useful building blocks and basic understanding of the tools required to learn skills for life and working life of any sort.
So splitting science lessons (and thus syllabus) by sex because girls like learning about exercise, diet and the rainforest and boys like blowing things up, is just bloody stupid. For example if they only ever got taught the "softer" bits of science, how will girls ever find out that, actually, the physics of turbulence can be drawn upon in designing sexier-looking cars (or aeroplanes), or that writing some code to solve six simultaneous partial differential equations will tell them some interesting things about diffusion profiles in material (fabric and construction) and maybe help to innovate in fashion design, or that coming up with a wonder-drug for Cancer is all well and good but if there's no industrial-scale way of producing the drugs there's not a lot of point? And that's aside from the sexual stereotyping; boys do technical things, go to war, invent things, go out to work, and girls help people, nurture people, indulge in self-sacrifice and stay at home to look after the husband and kids.
Go back. Make sure that English (language), Maths, 2 Sciences (or combined), a modern language and an art or humanity are mandatory. Sprinkle your extras on top of that and you have a child with a balanced enough education. Stop pandering to "but maths is boooooo-riiiiing" and make sure that the basics are there. Once kids are mature enough, they can make more informed choices on whether they are interested in pursuing various subjects or not (it rarely happens before the age of 15 or so) but until then, for god's sake give them the basic tools. And stop it with the sodding sexual stereotyping.
