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“Living a life without people you need is like living in a world without oxygen,” said Demi Lovato. Imagine if the people that you need are a different gender and you can’t see them every day. Although kids being in different classes helps not have a distraction, kids should not have separate classes because it does not help them learn. Sometimes you will need someone of the different gender because science states that both are tested to be more disrespectful to the different gender because they have only known one gender threw out school.
Kids/teens won't be prepared for the real world because in the real world you're going to have to talk to different people and what if your boss is a different gender than you and you can't talk to her cause you don't know how to. People who go to a one gender class have said that they find it difficult to go to work or talk to the opposite gender because they don't talk to them much or see them much. Kids who go to different classes are not ready for the real world cause they don't talk to the people the need to cause the school did not prepare them in the right way.
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There was a girl who was in a girl class and she was going to the library and there was a guy in there and she had to talk to him to get a book and she got really scared and did not know what to do so she left. Some kids don't know how to talk to the other gender because they go to a one gender school. Some kids just get so shy or just out right don't know what to do when they have to talk to their peers. Kids/teens who have separate classes sometimes just don't know who to talk to other gender because they never

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