Separate School Classes

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Many adults believe that there should be separate classes for girls in boys in school. I don't think that you should divide up classes by gender, and I think it's wrong. There are many ways that boys can benefit from having girls in the classroom. If they didn't have girls in class as a young boy, then the older you get it will be harder to communicate with them even as an adult.
Many girls and guys think completely different, girls could be smarter in one class and the boys could be smarter in the other. They could help each other out in the long run in any class they need to. Staying in the same class they can, learn from each other and improve their social skills while talking to girls. I think that it's important that they are in class
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Based on my experience yes boys do distract girls, and girls do distract boys. This may have a negative impact on what they do because society pressures girls into being pretty for guys and guys being buff for girls. Girls might act as though there dumb but, yet have the best grades in the class and same thing for guys. I think that the way that boys and girls learn are similar but boys and girls have a lot of different interests so if you use those interests to help teach them those skills they have a chance of learning it better. I do not think that all schools and all classes should be this way but I do think it should be an option for open minded parents to decide. My first reason is that you are always going to be around an opposite gender. According to Teach Boys and Girls Separately, “Boys and girls should go to the same schools so they can learn how to work together. Men and women have to do that all the

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