Single Sex versus Co education System

Single Sex versus Co education System

Thesis Statement

Coeducational system promotes greater harmony and liaison between the genders and leads to better development of both the sexes.

Introduction

Attending a single-sex school is not as beneficial as some educators claim. Both types of schools have their own social benefits as well as negative social aspects. However, it is evidently of more social benefits to attend a co-education school than to attend a single-sex school. The co-education schools play a major role in ensuring that social harmony between both genders is maintained. It does this through several ways.

Discussion

How coeducation is better that single sex education

Firstly, the co-education type of schools helps students in developing vital life-skills. Some educators argue that single-sex schools are better because they give students a sense of confidence, which might be true to some extent. However, it is very important to understand that this kind of confidence is short-lived and of wrongly timed. The co-education system depicts a complete social setting and thus, students from the co-education schools stand a greater chance of learning how to solve their social problems like cross-gender intimidation and gender stereotypes, once they are out of school. This is the type of confidence that the students need.

Unlike their counterparts from single-sex schools, students from the co-education schools will also have learnt how to behave in the presence of the opposite sex, how to relate at work, dating and forming friendships as well as how to communicate in an acceptable manner (Gray, et al, 2004).

Secondly, student diversity is highly hindered in the single-sex schools. Those educators who argue in favor of the single-sex schools by claiming that this type of schools save the students from a lot of distractions, miss a point on the importance of diversification in child development. It is common knowledge that children are born almost “empty-headed” and keeping in mind that the schooling age is the most effective age for instilling knowledge and skills, it is only fair that we don't deny them the chance to learn .Its during schooling that children embrace the better part of their learning as well as most of their biological developments. Proper shaping of this development will definitely require that the child is not segregated unnecessarily.

Thirdly, it's time that we learnt the true “how” of fighting the enemy called gender discrimination. According to a recent report being published in the US, segregation actually plays a very big role in the development of gender stereotypes, in addition to sending a message of inferiority to a certain gender. It beats logic to say how hard we are fighting to eliminate discriminations based on gender, while the first thing that we do to our eager-to-learn children is discriminate them based on their gender (Dubois, et al 2002).

In light of biological differences, some educators claim that separating boys from girls in school will shield the girls from inferiority complex while competing with boys. If this is not the final confirmation to the ...