There are many pros and cons to educating boys and girls separately. Although there are claims that the girls are called on less in mixed sex classrooms, I think differently. I haven’t seen any sort of bias in any classes that I have observed. I do not recall being called on less in my classrooms because of my gender. In fact, I think that because I was a very good student, I was actually called on often when I raised my hand. And that is what I see happening. I see the students that are doing well in the classes get called on more than ones who are not (generally because the students who are not doing well in the classrooms tend not to raise their hands).
Personally I don’t feel that single-sex schools would make much of a difference in education. Women may seem to be getting a better education when taught separate from boys, but I think that the social aspect of being in a mixed gender school is better for maturing students. Boys and girls go through different phases of puberty when they are in middle and high school, and I think that if they didn’t have the opposite sex around it would keep them from maturing properly. If they aren’t together in school, there may be this mind set of a taboo of being together, and may cause more rebellion.
Schools get students ready for the real world. Keeping them separate from the opposing sex is not getting them ready for the real world. Women have to compete with men, and vice versa. Keeping them isolated from this wouldn’t make for a positive outcome.
-Korri M. Kraemer
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