Coed Schools VS. Same Sex Schools

Co-ed vs. Single-Sex Schools:
Are co-ed schools more effective than single-sex schools? Does co-ed schools help prepare students for the future more than single-sex schools? Co-ed schools are much more effective in preparing students for their future. They help students to work together with the opposite gender and to not discriminate. Single-sex schools on the other hand promote gender stereotyping by having no interaction with other genders, for they will have to work together in the future. Students will have difficulty talking to the people of the opposite sex because they do not understand each other. "Laws such as Title IX aimed at preventing sex discrimination in education, as well as changing norms regarding women’s and men’s roles, have emphasized access to the same educational experiences in school for both sexes. Usually, it has been argued this equality of access can best be accomplished through coeducational classes." With these causes from single-sex schools, do you think that it will be safe for children to undergo some of these circumstances? We all may think that it is best since it would keep your children from being in relationships or from distractions. The problem with that is there are a lot of other ways to be distracted when attending a single-sex school.
Coed schools do not have the same advantages like single-sex schools. For Example: "Boys and girls differ in the way they act, how they learn, and their interests and abilities. They need an educational environment tailored to meet their unique needs. In general, boys are more physically active, assertive and comfortable learning in a more chaotic environment than girls. Girls are able to sit still and prefer a quiet, focused and orderly classroom. In single-sex schools, the curriculum and course offerings provide advanced work in areas of the children 's greatest interests and natural abilities (e.g., the outdated thinking that math and science are for boys, humanities and the arts for girls). Single-sex education encourages children to take risks in expressing themselves as they learn without the fear of embarrassing themselves in front of the opposite sex. Students feel the freedom to take classes (when available) usually associated with the opposite sex (e.g. girls taking higher level math; boys taking chorus). Without boys in their classes, girls are more likely to be leaders and reach higher levels of achievement, which leads to greater self-confidence and higher professional aspirations. In middle and high school, single-sex education removes the distraction of the opposite sex, allowing students to focus more seriously on their schoolwork." Co-ed schools also have many advantages such as "offering a diverse curriculum that is available to all students, deemphasizing gender-linked stereotypes related to coursework. Coed schools encourage all children to explore a broad range of learning opportunities. Teachers are more likely to attend to individual learning needs rather than assuming that all boys learn in one way and all girls learn in another. Coed schools provide opportunities for girls and boys to interact together meaningfully as they learn. Boys and girls learn to respect one another and cooperate as equals. Coed schools can offer both boys and girls a more extensive range of extracurricular activities where they can either participate separately or together (e.g. athletics, theater, music, and clubs)." As you can see, single-sex schools discriminate students by their gender. Unlike co-ed schools, their main focus is to help students of the same gender and to help them interact together instead of separately.
By being in a single-sex school you will lose interactions with the other genders as you are not able to socialize with them. In co-ed schools, you are able to socialize and participate in the same activities, and classes as the other genders. "Most importantly, single-sex schooling reduces boys’ and girls’ opportunities to learn from and about each other. Boys and girls must learn to work together, and the classroom is the ideal setting for such practice because it is both purposeful and supervised." Students of the opposite gender should work with each other because they will need to interact with each other in the future. They will need to understand how to work with, and understand each other.
Students in single-sex classrooms will one day live and work side-by-side with members of the opposite sex. Educating students in single-sex schools limits their opportunity to work cooperatively and co-exist successfully with members of the opposite sex." Not working with the opposite sex has the possibility of not preparing students for their future. Students that are in single-sex schools will only have the chance to interact with the same sex helping them to increase their grades, levels of intelligence, and to better connect with the same gender, but it ruins their chances of being able to understand the opposite sex, and to cooperate with them. "It is not long before the youth of today will be the parents, co-workers, and leaders of tomorrow. Rather than segregating boys and girls during this important developmental time, schools should take better advantage of coeducation to model the truly egalitarian society that we hope for their future."
In the end, co-ed schools are more effective than single-sex schools because it better prepares their future for interacting with other genders. Many have wished to go to a co-ed school because they didn’t know how to interact with people of the opposite sex. They needed a lot of time to get used to the fact that they are working with different genders. For all of the time that they did not have to interact with other sexes, they were not able to comfortably get along with each other. It caused men and woman to have many awkward silences, and not be able to communicate to each other. By the way that these students were raised in single-sex schools, they learned how to separate themselves from the opposite gender, while students from co-ed schools are able to comfortably interact with other people of the opposite sex, for they were raised to work with each other and to socially interact with everyone. In conclusion I think that there shouldn’t be single sex schools but instead a coed one so that everyone one, both boys and girls are in unity together and would be able to learn from each other. CITATIONS
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