- removes distractions from classrooms associated with the opposite sex such as flirting, feeling the need to impress others, caring about appearance, or the fear of embarrassment when saying something aloud
- coming from single gender schools, women are more likely to enter predominantly male fields such as science and math
- learning could be catered towards boys and girls individual to reflect the way each learns best
- gives lower income families the opportunity for an education previously offered only by expensive private schools
- boys tend to dominate classroom discussions, this gives girls a chance to speak up
- girls and boys tend to score higher compared to their co-ed contemporaries
Against Single Gender Schools
- results are not based on gender, but socioeconomic backgrounds
- student success comes from quality of school, teachers, and ciriculum, so schools with these attributes will have successful students regardless of coed or gender division
- is a discriminatory practice on principle that segregation is automatically discriminating and dividing genders
- scores are not significant enough to inspire a switch to all single-gender schools
- single gender eliminates healthy boy-girl grade competition
- denies students oportunity to intereact with opposite sex. boys tend to exit high school being more chauvinistic
- unfair to select certain students to participate in the trial divided public schools
Though I'm not fully decided yet, I am leaning towards supporting single-gender schools. ````````````````````````````````````
You laid the issues out pretty well. I can definitely see why you'd lean towards single-gender schools. I would definitely look into the futures of students who graduate from single-gender schools opposed to co-ed. While you may not find a lot of resarch on the topic you might want to consider the fact that a lot (I'm not sure, but possibly all) private schools are not subjected to standardized testing like public schools are. This could defniitely affect the curriculum quality. In addition one of yhour points state that girls and boys score higher in single-gender schools. In your essay you might want to describe what exactly they scored higher on, if the margin differed between the genders, and in which subjects their scores varied. One last thing you might want to look into is how students themselves feel in a single gender environment. In my opinion, first hand experience of the topic is always a great asset. Best of luck!
ReplyDeleteYou have a lot of good preliminary research. However, your topic seems to focus on the benefits of single gender school for girls rather than for boys. So you may want to include those as well. In addition you may also want to provide statistics supporting the healthy relationship education fosters between boys and girls. Or you may want to research whether the separation of boys and girls actually causes more distractions due to modern technology, such as tempting student to text while during class. Keep up the good work!!
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