Co-Educational Schools Should Be Supported

If all schools were made to co-educational, all the girls at single sex schools would do worse than they did previously. This proposition may make the grades all equal, but it will make them drop. What would you rather have- a large gap in attainment but a higher attainment, or no gap in attainment but a low attainment?

This excludes consideration of social influences that would affect girls in Co-ed schools in their choice of subjects to take for qualifications. The school advisor, via stereotyping, would encourage girls to take dance, English and other languages. These are the subjects that girls are renowned for doing well in. The school advisor would want the best results for the school and so would type cast girls into these subjects. Also, the school needs to fill up all the available spaces for each subject. Therefore, they need to get the girls to accept the ‘girly’ subject spaces as the boys would be less likely to opt for them. Equally boys would be encouraged to go for the more ’masculine’ subjects like PE and maths.

This is in addition to the pressure that the students would put on themselves. If a boy wanted to do dance, the social pressure of knowing that he would be the only boy in the class would make the boy not choose dance. A girl may want to study woodwork, but would not have the confidence to be the only girl in a room full of boys. In a single sex school, these pressures do not exist. If the subject is offered, any girl or boy who was interested would not feel ashamed in taking it knowing that everyone else in the class would be in the same position.

first this should be on the opposite side.
Presumably most pregnancies dont start with sex at school, being educated at all boys and all girls school is not going to stop interaction outside school hours when sexual relations are most likely to occur.

If you look at the league tables, you can clearly see that single sex girl schools have far better results, at both GCSE and A’Level. [[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/a_level_gcse_results/]] This is a clear indication that girls out perform boys, and girls in single sex school achieve more than girls in mixed schools. With a girls ability to learn at a much quicker rate than boys, co-ed schools would only force girls to learn at a slower rate. This will mean that girls who attend such school will not achieve their full potential. This is not to be promoted but condemned. Girls and boys should learn separately in order for every child to learn at their own pace.

In this modern day and age women are still discriminated against in the world of work. They still have lower pay and are less likely to get the promotion compared to their male counter part. To combat this, women need to come together and be cultured into an independent and strong environment for them to aspire for more. Girls in single sex schools will have more determination to succeed. Teachers can be instructedto teach in a way that drives the young women forward into life, giving them a sense of what could be achieved if they tried. The competition in the school will be for the best grades, not for the best looking boyfriend.

Teaching teenagers in a classroom environment can be a hard task, even if they are of the same sex. Teenagers naturally are clumsy and easily distracted by less important matters. Then think of the distractions there would be with the opposite sex in the room. Boys eyes will not be on the white board and girls will be passing notes around about who they would like to kiss, date or marry. With all of this carry on, neither sex will learn anything in the classroom. Then students will form relationships with each other, and this will also distract the students. Should the relationship fail, how could both parties continue on with education as they normally would in the same class? The whole idea of co-ed education is troublesome and worrying.