Students more benefit from being in co-ed schools than in single-sex schools. Do you agree?
Being in co-ed schools mean that students of both sexes need to acquire proper mores in society. For instance, in a co-ed schools, girls have to learn to sit, speak, and even walk properly. If not, girls who do not present herself in a feminine manner will receive spiteful remark from boys. They may be labelled as "tom-boys". On the contrary, in a girl's school, girls need not to worry so much about reputation or image because there are no boys around of them.
Students in co-ed schools also can acquire the proper social skills to get along well with each others,especially boys and girls perceive things differently. Boys can learn to be more sensitive to girls' delicate feelings while girls, on the contrast, will have to be more tolerant boys' rowdy behaviour.
Personally, I strongly agree with that. Do you agree that students more benefit from being in co-ed schools than single-sex schools???

i think co-ed schools are way better because they can provide more social skills that single sex

School is a place for learning and the most important part of school is not social. Although Co-ed schools are a first choice for most adolescents and their parents, Single sex schools are just as good. In single sex schools, students don't have to worry about sexual attraction (which seems to be what most of you are leaning torwards) of the opposite sex. This enables the students to pay more attention to their studies and less on social situations.
As for not socializing with the opposite sex, most private, single sex schools have sister or brother schools in which they get together.

niether sort of school is gonna be perfect so you just gotta deal with what you've got

Co-ed schools are easily a smarter choice because they teach children to interact as they will in the adultworld.

Afterall, there are no "solely-female" or "soleyl-male" societies.

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I would think you would worry more about your reputation/image at an all girls' school because girls are fucking mean. I could be wrong, but it's pretty true. I mean they are, generally, better at gossip and backstabbing and making your life hell without really doing anything at all.

A-fucking-men.

I would love to go to an all girls school, and if you know me, as my sig has sorta pointed out, for obvious reasons. But girls can be cruel. As for feminine walking, speaking, acting... some of the girls i know who have guys after them are no where near feminine speaking... jeez. and i'm surprised that i've never been called a dyke because of how i act. I'm not feminine. At All.

Any way. Your kinda stereo typing girls, and there are many different ranges of girls... personality wise too.

lol at worthwaitingfor.

personally, i've experienced both sides, and i have to say that i prefer to be in a single-sex class. the current school that i'm in takes a parallel education stand: classes are separate, but grounds, facilities (excluding the obvious, bathrooms and such) and lectures are shared. it's good for classes because there are less of the rowdy boys or the skanky girls trying to get attention distracting everyone, but it also allows you to have interaction with the opposite sex.

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Originally posted by EEWEN:
Students more benefit from being in co-ed schools than in single-sex schools. Do you agree?

Yes but your reasons make no sense.

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Being in co-ed schools mean that students of both sexes need to acquire proper mores in society. For instance, in a co-ed schools, girls have to learn to sit, speak, and even walk properly.

I have never learned this. If I'm in pants or sometimes even in a long skirt, I'll sit with my legs spread. I curse like a sailor and if you tried to "walk properly" with an ass as big as mine, you'd probably fall down.

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If not, girls who do not present herself in a feminine manner will receive spiteful remark from boys. They may be labelled as "tom-boys".

The only spiteful remarks I have received from boys have either been from jackasses or about something other than how I walk or sit. Furthermore, I have received more spiteful remarks from girls. That being said...

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On the contrary, in a girl's school, girls need not to worry so much about reputation or image because there are no boys around of them.

I would think you would worry more about your reputation/image at an all girls' school because girls are fucking mean. I could be wrong, but it's pretty true. I mean they are, generally, better at gossip and backstabbing and making your life hell without really doing anything at all.

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Boys can learn to be more sensitive to girls' delicate feelings while girls, on the contrast, will have to be more tolerant boys' rowdy behaviour.

I don't have delicate feelings and, furthermore, boys certainly don't learn how to be sensitive in co-ed schools. And I'm more rowdy than some of the boys I know and I don't necessarily that is an attribute in boys that I need to "tolerate" as much as "enjoy."


Seriously, reasons for co-ed schools over single sex schools include

*Better social skills because dealing with boys is different from dealing with girls just not in the ways you described.

*More dating potential unless you are homosexual.

*Less destraction because you aren't sexually frustrated.

Etc.

This is an overdramatic post but I really do think co-ed is the way to go...

I'm not sure I agree with you. I go to both a single-sex and a co-ed school (one half before lunch, one half after) and I got to tell you, as a girl, I don't believe that at all.
I'm not quite sure what this "proper" way going about walking and talking is about but, i assure you, lacking that doesn't damage the girls. We aren't stereotypically "feminine" if you will, very dainty, and quiet. On the contrary, we are loud, outgoing, casual, occasionally perverted, sometimes crass, often clever, rowdy and bright.

You mentioned that boys will deal out "spiteful" remarks to this type of behavior but I have never seen that. I also find that to be on the contrary in my personal experience seeing that I have more guy friends and boyfriends then many of my friends at full time co-ed schools because I'm more comfortable in my own skin then they are.

As for social order goes, why must there be a divide between total femininity and masculinity? The girls at my single-sex school seem to have a wonderful blend of both, and, to paraphrase the army, why not be all you can be?

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hence, education in a co-ed school is one of the starting point of the real world!

But school isn't the real world - it's preparing you for it. You are learning the skills you will need later in life. I don't think the genders should be totally separated, but if kids can better learn what they need to know in single-sex classrooms, then they can learn their social skills in other places.

I totally agree that students should be placed in co-ed schools. We live in a society with male and female. School is a place that students get a pre-experience of the real world outside. Being in a co-ed school, students are given the chance to mix around. We are living in a realistic world, hence, education in a co-ed school is one of the starting point of the real world!

Yes, some of what you said is true, but I think students benefit more from single-sex schools. I am currently a homeschooler, but I have been in both co-ed and single-sex classrooms.

In a single-sex classroom, kids do not have to worry about impressing the opposite sex. And because girls and boys learn differently, it helps accommodate the different learning styles. The study we did at my school showed that kids in single-sex classes were making better grades then those in co-ed.

It is true that they won't be quite as socialized with the opposite sex, but there are ways around that. At the junior high I attended, you had your core classes (English, History, Math,Science) in a single sex setting, along with P.E., but Exploratory and Specialist classed were co-ed.