Co-education or Single gender education

[dimpy.handa]

Boys and girls distract each other from their education, especially in adolescence as their sexual and emotional sides develop. Too much time can be spent attempting to impress or even sexually harassing each other (particularly boys toward girls). Academic competition between the sexes is unhealthy and only adds to unhappiness and anxiety among weaker students.

 

[dimpy.handa]

Some children thrive in a single sex school. Why? For one thing, the social pressures can be gentler. Your child can grow at his own pace. This often is a good thing for boys as they mature later than girls.

The faculty at single sex schools understand how their students learn. They adapt their teaching styles to those specific needs. There are other advantages as well. For example, since a single sex school is basically homogeneous, that simplifies planning events and activities as you only have to consider boys or girls as the case may be.

 

[swatiraohnlu]

Being a student of a co-ed I am in support of it. When you send your child to a co-educational school, your child will have exposure to the opposite sex from the outset. As a result, your child will not only feel more comfortable in the company of the opposite sex, but will also be able to handle advances better.

 

[dimpy.handa]

I'm fairly equivocal on this, but MoonCake: boys and girls are different. In some ways because they're socialized to be so (which is gonna happen whether they're educated together or not), but there are fundamental, honest-to-God biological differences. Boys will make jackass comments anyway. Girls will be snotty to boys anyway. This doesn't prevent them from socializing outside of school (see also: homeschoolers who are active in their communities; I hear those who go to same-sex also still manage to mingle with their opposite-sexed counterparts). You paint a nice slippery slope, too: kids aren't stupid, and even if they couldn't understand (and still cared) about the separation, you educate them to be respectful of everyone anyway, like you're supposed to. But no, oh my god, of course educating boys away from girls will lead to a regression to Neanderthal manly behavior.

 

[Malika.Munjal]

I favour Co-education here. I believe students, if brought up in co-ed schools, colleges, learn the art/habit of adjusting and living in the presence of the opposite sex. This would further help them when they grow up because after all man and woman coexist in this world!!
Also I found cases where people having single gender education finding it very difficult to adjust when they grow up because in today's time, even when u have to work, your colleagues wont be always from the same gender! There would be both men and women u have to work with!