Single Sex Schools : Pros And Cons Of Single Gendered Schools

There are many pros and cons about going to a single-gender school along with, a co-ed school. In the passage “Single-Gender Schools Make the Mark” And the passage “Co-ed Schools are Here to Stay” It is very difficult to make up your mind and pick your opinion. Many people thought that single-gender schooling was wonderful and they were here to stay, But that was not correct. I believe that co-ed schools are great for not only the students, but a great adventure for the teachers too.

When it comes to the classroom, there are several differences between girls and boys. There are physical differences in the way their brains work, differences in the room temperature that is best for boys and girls, and differences in how girls and boys respond to various tones of speech (Sax, 2006). While girls prefer soft-spoken teachers, Sax (2006) notes that boys prefer to be spoken to “loudly and in short, direct sentences with clear instructions” (p. 195). According to Sax (2006), “the ideal ambient temperature for boys is about 69 degrees and about 75 degrees for girls” (p. 193-194). Further differences involve how boys and girls learn. McNeil states that “boys may learn better under pressure and when allowed to move around...while girls may perform better in group situations and with a lot of encouragement” (McNeil, 2008). Because of these many differences, it would stand to reason that boys and girls would benefit from being in separate classrooms. According to Hughes (2007), “the teacher would be able to concentrate on the learning-styles of each sex and use the styles to bring out the academic best in each students. Lessons and activities could be designed with a single-sex in mind” (p. 11). As Principal John Fox states, “the single-sex environment enables you to actually focus on the particular needs of each gender, and those needs socially and

Hey girls you go to that school and boy you go to that other school. Do I think that we should go to gender specific schools?would there be less fights? Would grades be higher? How would this affect the LGBTQ community? Let's talk about this.

Imagine that you were in a classroom full of your gender how would you feel? Well, if you feel that you're not ok with that well, In school year 2004-05 122 public schools offered single sex classes and 34 public schools were single sex classes mandatory according to “Old Tactic Gets New Use: Public Schools Separate Boys and Girls.” Article. Close to 70% of kids in single sex classes raised their math and reading scores in “Old Tactic Gets New Use: Public Schools Separate Boys and Girls.” Article. Although this may seem bad and shouldn't happen it's really not. Kids in single sex classes will have more of a chance to succeed than students in non single sex class because of most kids have no problem with this in their school, less discipline, and most of all higher grades.

Hutchison and Mikulski argue that students tend to concentrate better when boys and girls are separated. “Both principals and teachers believed that the main benefits of single-sex schooling are decreasing distractions to learning and improving student achievement.” However, single sex education does not provide socialization. Educating students in single sex classes limits both genders from interacting and working together. One day they will coexist with the opposite sex but how are single sex schools/classes going to prepare the student to interact with the opposite sex when they are

What’s in everyone's mind is if this technique of having single sex classes would work? “Only 59% of girls in mixed classes were scored as proficient, while 75% of girls in single-sex ones achieved proficiency. Similarly, 37% of boys in coeducational classes scored proficient, compared with 86% of boys in all-boys classes.” (Hutchison 9) When they tried out single sex classes they got positive results. There was a huge difference between single sex classes, and coeducational classes. By viewing the end results it is pretty obvious to see that single sex classes are way more effective than coeducational classes.This will obviously help students become high caliber students in order for them to be ready for college. I believe that students would do way much better in school by having them take single sex classes. This may also affect the days that increase or it may not, due to the coeducational classes we have in public schools. The AUHSD needs to understand that in order to help their students become successful, they need to be willing to do anything in order to make that happen. Which means that they can increase days or separate male and female in order to make them successful and prepared for college. The only negative thing about this is that students might be used to single sex classes , and they might be forced into taking coeducational classes once

An article that was written about a school in Texas stated that more than 50% of boys and girls in single-gender classrooms cause disruptions, and they bring their behavior from home into the classrooms at school. In an article, it stated that “in October of 2006, federal regulations established the requirements for legally permissible single-sex schools and classes within the public system; nearly 200 schools in South Carolina have single-gender classrooms” (“Single-Sex Education Spreads” 2). Teachers’ interest often drives the attention of students to single-gender classes, and growing interest from their parents is also pushing more schools and districts as they hear about these classrooms (“Single-Gender Classrooms” 2). While teachers and administrators prefer this environment, boys and girls in single-sex classrooms are influenced to distract and be distracted by their friends, and the people around them. They seem to doodle, daydream, and lose their thought in the classroom because of their surroundings. In a newspaper article, “Should Children Be Taught in Single-Sex Classrooms”, the author says pupils fail to develop relationships with the opposite sex if they are taught in a single-sex environment because they both tend to be drawn into conflict amongst each other, they are distracted by what others are doing in the classrooms, and they are not themselves because they are being forced into an unfamiliar environment they do not

The typical classroom consists an image of boys and girls coexisting, working together, and learning in the same way. As when you walk into certain schools you will see rooms with blue walls with race cars on it, while other rooms will have pink walls with flowers on it. These classrooms would be single-gender. Many students or parent is not given an option of single-sex classrooms without it being a private school and costing hundreds of dollars. Schools should be able to offer students more than one option without having a distraction of the opposite gender.

Although separating male and female student might help concentration, students should not be separated based on gender because, separation would cost a lot of money, a new building, new staff, new bus drivers, new everything. Utilities would be the main cost increase. Bullying is much more common in boy-only or girl-only schools. Social interaction is also very important in schools, although it can be distracting in class, social interactions between male and female students are very important.

Public schools are wonderful, they are meant for everyone, and anyone can attend them no matter who you are, where you come from, or how you look like. We all learn together, play together, and experience together. At public schools nobody gets left behind, because we all look out for eachother. Everyone is welcome at all public schools! Well with the exception of that one… and you can’t attend that one either…oh and that one too, … we can’t forget that one… oh that’s right you are a boy so you can’t go to that school that happens to be way closer than the other one! Single- sex schools: enforcing stereotypes and allowing segregation since the moment they were created, and now public schools want to stop mixed education in hopes it will increase

I believe that the single gender school would be boring because girls have different points of views and they can make a different kind of approach to different things. Boys think different because they have seen diferent stuff and they have probably gone thru worst things because girls get more protected by their parents.

If schools were to separate boys from girls I would not attend. Most of us have a close friend of the opposite gender so would you want to leave your close friend just because someone else wants you to? I know that I would not want to have to because if you are ‘friends’ you feel like you have the right to be with them despite what other people may think. I’ve been best friends with a boy named Karlmichel since we were both in the first grade, and even though we have our ups and downs, he has always been there for me as I have been there for him. To be honest, separating boys from girls makes me feel as if I’m irresponsible, because boys and girls actually can be friends without having to be in a relationship. It just shows how immature some adults think us kids or teens are.

Boys and girls learn in two different ways. This reason is why having a single sex school is more rewarding than a co-ed school. According to Dr. Schlosser of Breckinridge County Middle School's (Kentucky) the difference between the way boys and girls learn are the type of weather boys and girls prefer.) Boys prefer to learn in a cool, dark room. When there are two different people wanting two different things its hard to please both sides. Boys also learn much slower than what girls learn, this could be a problem for girls in the same class as boys for girls would learn and to move on, but would have to cut back their learning to wait for the boys to learn the same material. Boys also are interested in different subjects than what girls like. Boys are most secretly interested in music, science, and math. According to GreatSchools.com says boys feel girls won’t like them when they know they are interested in other things such as music and math and not baseball, football, and soccer. Many boys won’t show interest in music in a co-ed school. When boys are placed in a single sex school they won’t have the feeling of impressing girls so more boys will show their interest in arts and music. Boys are much better with math and science than what girls are says NASSPE VIII. NASSPE Vlll is single-sex school out of Huston Texas. "The most profound difference between girls and boys is in any brain structure per se, but also in the sequence of

Not only are the students more focused in the classrooms with single-sex classrooms, but they also feel more comfortable with each other and aren't very concerned with the way they look. They don't need to be worrying about impressing anyone because everyone there is of the same gender so it would be a waste of their time if they tried to impress one another. It is common for them to be able to go

In single sex schools boys and girls excel in subjects they usually would not. Single sex schools help children do well in subjects they usually would not be good at or subjects they would not usually try. For example girls do better at maths and science in all-girl schools; boys do better in languages and the arts in all boy schools. My first example to backup my point is a study by Cambridge University in 2006 where their research showed “boys improved in english and foreign languages in single sex classes, and girls improved in maths and physics. This proves girls and boys do better in subjects they usually would not do because they are more comfortable in a single sex school rather than a co-educational school. A second piece of evidence to help argue my point is a United States study that found boys at single sex