- Girls are no more likely to discuss in classroom topic depending on the environment that they are in this is equal in both. Females are willing to try whether they are wrong or right.
- Research has shown that boys in a coed-school environment are as likely to be engaged in learning as boys in a single-sex school environment. However, studying in a mixed peer setting allows the boys to become more comfortable in voicing their opinions and ideas when girls are present.
- In this environment, they learn how to interact with and gain respect for female classmates and theirs’ in return. Each gender has a perspective to offer the other.
- Working together in the classroom and on homework assignments provides both boys and girls the opportunity to learn from each other intellectually as well as socially.
- Independent co-ed schools offer the students opportunity to exchange a broad range of opinions and viewpoints with their peers since the school comprises a mixed gender student body.
- In a co-ed learning environment, students are exposed to both male and female role model
Intro:
State the arguments and position (against) and main points
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1) Coed schools are better than single sex schools because the students of a single sex school don't get enough chances to interact with the opposite gender, therefore when coming into the society you may not be comfortable or feel strong enough to act appropriately with good social skills around the other sex.
- A co-educational environment is obviously more reflective of society - one does need to engage with members of the opposite sex fairly regularly after all. Research in this area show those students from single sex schools are more hesitant expressing their views in front of members of the opposite sex and have more trouble forming friendships with the opposite sex as well.
- A survey in 2005-06 shows that 71% of students that go to coed schools are better to succeed in post secondary. This is because they have learned to work with both genders.
- Because co-ed schools reflect real-world social and workplace interactions, they are claimed to better prepare youth for cross-gender interactions and integration into society. This reflects a common assumption in some circles that graduates of SS high schools, if not middle or elementary schools, are somehow less adept at interactions in either the mixed-gender workplace or other activities, perhaps even in the interpersonal aspects of intimate relationships. Boys and girls have been educated separately across most cultures in most time periods.
- In a research study, 84% of the students attending independent co-ed schools respond that they feel confident expressing their views in the presence of members of the opposite sex while people attending single sex schools were only 69%
- Showing that collaboration between the sexes in the classroom helps develop confidence in students so that they feel comfortable sharing their ideas and opinions in any situation, and excel at university and beyond as leaders
- “Best of both worlds” opportunity
- Students of co-ed schools are given greater opportunity to participate in activities with opposite-sex peers and 62% agree they also have a chance to do activities without the opposite-sex.
- Conversely, only 32% of the students in single-sex schools report the chance to participate in activities with the opposite sex.
- In this environment, they learn how to interact with and gain respect for female classmates and theirs’ in return. Each gender has a perspective to offer the other.
- Working together in the classroom and on homework assignments provides both boys and girls the opportunity to learn from each other intellectually as well as socially.
2) Coed schools allow their students to be exposed to problems / situations that may be non-existent in a single sex school, this allows them knowledge of how to deal with them in the future.
- The formative years of children are the best time to expose them to the company of the other gender, in order that they may learn each other’s behavior and be better prepared for adult life. The number of subjects benefiting from single-sex discussion is so small that this could easily be organized within a co-educational system.
- Problems where students in coed school are more likely to be exposed than single sex schools are the spread of rumors. Students in coed schools would know how to handle and deal with them better than those form SS schools.
- Coed schools develop confidence in students. They are freer to express their opinions in any situations that allow them to excel in life. By having good social skills with the opposite sex, you would also have better success in life. This is because in society, social skills play an important role. (Like an interview for a job)
- Students gets exposed to things such as sex and dating and when this happened within a co-ed school, they would be able to gain support from their friends when needed and they would learn of methods and ways to be strong and get through these problems.
- Dating can end in terrible results and fights, when they live through it in a co-ed school, they can gain support and have friends to get them through it. When they get into the real world, they would be able to deal with it.
- Students at co-ed schools indicated that they make friends easily with members of their own sex (85%) and the opposite sex (75%) as well.
- For these students there is a stark contrast with their peers attending single-sex schools, of whom only 58% are reported to make friends with the opposite sex easily and 65% with same sex.
3) Coed schools provides for their students a wider range of perspectives to be presented and sides from different people on discussions and problems dealt with in the classrooms and in the school.
- Single-sex schools are a throwback to the patriarchal society of the past; in many historical cultures, only men were allowed an education of any sort. To allow this is to remind women of their past subservience and to continue to hold them from full social inclusion.
- "Girls are learning to compete with boys and boys are learning to compete with girls. Co-operation and competition is something we have to educate them about." Dr John Newton, headmaster, Taunton co-educational school.
- Since studies have shown that boy and girls process information differently, coed schools allow students to learn from the opposite sex.
- People in general learn from everyone. If they were exposed to a wider range of people, then they would gain more knowledge.
- Girls are no more likely to discuss in classroom topic depending on the environment that they are in this is equal in both. Females are willing to try whether they are wrong or right.
- Research has shown that boys in a coed-school environment are as likely to be engaged in learning as boys in a single-sex school environment. However, studying in a mixed peer setting allows the boys to become more comfortable in voicing their opinions and ideas when girls are present.
- Independent co-ed schools offer the students opportunity to exchange a broad range of opinions and viewpoints with their peers since the school comprises a mixed gender student body.
- In a co-ed learning environment, students are exposed to both male and female role model
