Developing Arguments

To complete my position on the publicazation of single-gender schools, I plan to argue the following:

1. Academics become the focus when the opposite sex (and the pressures associated with them) are removed from classrooms

• No flirting
• appearance not important
• less cattiness/cliques among girls
• hard-wired to learn differently
• (source 7)

2. Students recieve better scores on exams and have better overall grades

• GPAs along with other testing scores improve
• higher rate of college attendance
• (use statistics found in Source 5 and 6 of improved grades)

3. Coming from Single-Sex schools, girls are more likely to enter typically "male" dominated fields such as math and science

• increased women in positions
• no pigeon-holeing girls or boys
• (evidence from source 8)

4. Increased confidence for girls and boys

5. Low income families should have right to be exposed to single-sex education without cost of private schools