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A single-sex school may be good for some people who need to focus on school, but not for Dave. Meet Dave, he is a smart, shy, and quiet boy. Dave went to Holy Ghost Prep a single-sex school as many of you may know. He went to single-sex schools through middle school and high school so he never got a real chance to mix with girls his age.
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I honestly don’t agree with the fact that single-sex schools are more academically superior. First, all the studies that have been done recently are of single-sex private schools. There are only a few single-sex public schools in America right now so that can’t be a reliable source of information.
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Other then elementary school which he was with girls, but in elementary school boys and girls don’t really like each other. Long story short Dave never had a chance to mix with girls so he got really awkward. Especially during college, when other boys from mixed-gender schools were taking girls from him, he didn’t know what to do. Dave presently has three online dating profiles, lives at home with his parents and has been diagnosed with depression. He is all alone because he never had the social skills to prepare himself for life. He couldn’t flirt, find or flourish any relationships.
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Parents who send their kids to private schools usually care about their education and actually help them. Studies have shown that coming from a good family will help you do well in school. Usually You have to have a lot of money to send your child to private school and if your son or daughter is not the brightest bulb and you are sending him or her to a private school you are usually rich enough to hire a tutor, which may I add are not cheap at all.
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In my opinion, single sex schools are not better for education or socialization. Professor Dianna Leonard from Landon University’s Institute of Education did research on single-sex education. She found that boys who go to single-sex schools as opposed to mixed gender schools are more likely to get divorced and suffer from depression in their forties. Sadly that’s what happened to Dave. If Dave would’ve gone to a mixed gender school he would’ve been a lot better off. First, boys are backsliding in education and girls are taking a gigantic leap in education and learning. Boys work a lot better when they are with girls. Boys have always been competitive, especially when they are with girls who are doing better than them in a subject.
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My opponent said that girls mature faster than boys do. That is true and is exactly the reason why they need to be together. Girls set the example in classes because of how mature they are. If you were to separate boys from girls the boys wouldn’t know what to strive for.
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Having girls mixed with boys helps the boys strive for a better education. I feel that when boys are with girls they become leaders. Boys don’t want girls to overrule them, so when they are collaborating boys often try to take over. In a single-sex school boys wouldn’t be able to know where they stood with women because they wouldn’t have any classes with them. If boys and girls were together in classes boys would most likely behave better. If they enjoy the attention then they work hard to do well so people will notice them for the good things not for the bad ones.
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My opponent also said that single-sex schools are less stereotypical which is not the case. Actually, if we want to stop stereotypes then single sex schools are not the answer according to American Civil Liberties Union. They believe that enforcing single-sex schools will be a waste of time and effort because single-sex schools will reinforce stereotyped notions of how boys and girls should behave. This will deprive students of important preparation for the real, coeducational worlds of work and family.
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Everyone is well aware that kids in our school are very immature. It may be hard to believe, but kids in single-sex school are more immature. They are more immature because they don’t have experience with the opposite sex in let’s just say health class. We learn about sex and the reproductive systems of both males and females in health. When you have all boys in one class together you know someone’s going to crack a joke and then no one is going to take the class seriously. With girls in the class they seem to make the boys more mature shown also by Professor Dianna Leonard.
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My challenger may believe that boys and girls are wired differently, but according to research done in the American Civil Liberties Union I would beg to differ. In the ACLU research has shown that every student learns differently, but needs to recognize these different learning techniques.
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One of the biggest concerns to me about single-sex schools is relationships, especially for girls. Us girls we fall hard for boys we know we can never have, listen to liars and know what heartbreak feels like. Do you know why we know this? Because we go to mixed gender schools and we deal with boys every day. If we didn’t have that interaction then we wouldn’t know how to deal with problems that would occur in relationships later in life. Mixed gender schools prepare us for these problems so we don’t avoid them or make them worse when we get older. By having mixed gender schools, boys and girls will start to understand the differences between each gender.
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By separating them by sex and only focusing on what they believe is better for each gender will not prepare them to work with other people who have different learning ways in the future.
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Even though my parents didn’t meet during high school or college I know many people who did. My dad’s friends Becki and Paul met at Neshaminy High School as well as his friends Leigh and Mike and Michelle and Garney. My friend’s parents also met in high school. So did my mom-mom and Pop-pop. I talked with my dad and he said he knows a bunch of people that he went to high school with that are still married that I didn’t already mention.
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While I was browsing through stories in the internet I came upon one that caught my attention. I found this on the ACLU website, “I attended the transfer student’s orientation where each student was asked to explain why they wanted to transfer to Barnard College an all girls school. I was only a visitor, but listened to all the stories closely. I’ll never forget the one woman’s response: Well I went to an all girls middle school and high school, and when I got to my co-ed college, I didn’t know how to function around boys, so I decided to transfer to Bernard.”
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If my mom and dad wouldn’t have gone to mixed gender schools they would never have met. My dad was friends with Leigh and Mike. Leigh and Mike went to high school with my dad. Both Leigh and Mike decided to have a long distance relationship during college and they knew that they would end up getting married. Leigh went to the same college as my mom and they became best friends. After college Mike had a graduation party. He had Leigh invite some friends from college and he would invite some friends from his from college and their friends from high school. Leigh invited my mom and Mike invited my dad. They met at that party and everything just fell into place from there. If neither of them went to mixed gender schools then they would never have met.
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Is this really how we want the kids in the future to act? To just run away from the problem of not knowing how “function” around the opposite gender? No, Exactly so why should we have to put them through this? Instead just keep the schools mixed gender. It would save all the kids from so many problems, socially and academically
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That is why having both boys and girls in school together will help the students interact and learn to work with a wider range of people from all different personalities. As a result of boys and girls being in the same classes you learn to be a lot more social. It also makes it easier to come out of your comfort zone. With all these people coming out of their comfort zones, diversity flourishes. The way that I see it, gender stereotypes will more likely to be accepted in mixed gender schools. If you have a gay guy in an all boy’s school, he will fell like he is in the out of place. He may want girls as friends to shop with and do other feminine things with.
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Five percent of kids in high school would categorize themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual. If a girl came out and said that she is a lesbian or bisexual while attending an all girl’s school the other girls would treat her differently. They would make up rumors and think she was weird because there are only girls in their school.
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A study done in a preschool classroom in 2010 showed that separating the genders would increase stereotypes. One teacher used gender-specific language while the other did not. After just two weeks the children with gender-specific language played less with the other gender. Kids showed increase in gender-specific stereo types. For example the girls played more with dolls and the boys played more with trucks when the teacher taught with gender-specific ways.
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This study was done by Lynn S. Liben a distinguished Professor of Psychology who went to the University of Michigan. She presently works in the Department of Psychology at Penn State University. “We know from the history of our country that separation is not equal.” Lynn said in interview with ABC News. “There’s no reason to divide along the lines of biological sex.”
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In this quote, I suspect that Lynn meant that dividing by gender is not right because that is not equal. Kofi Atta Annan is a ga nine diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. He also believes that girls and boys should be equal in school. Kofi Annan used this quote to try and help women’s rights.
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“Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable developments and building good governce” What Kofi means to say in this quote we have tried so hard and for so long to have equality between both sexes.
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In 1833 one college in Ohio made a massive step forward in equality. Orblin College in Ohio let girls in for the first time ever. This set a big example for other colleges in America. Little by little women have gained more power and by separating the boys from the girls you are taking away all that we have worked for.
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People who claim single-sex schools are better academically are wrong in some ways. If you have a good teacher and you are doing well in a mixed gender school you will do well regardless of where you go and vice versa.
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In many surveys and polls you can tell that mixed gender schools are a lot more popular. I conducted my own research and asked everyone in the computer lab that if they got to choose whether to go to a mixed gender or a single-sex school which would they pick. Twenty-three out of twenty-four people in the computer lab would choose mixed gender schools over single sex schools.
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In summary, there is no evidence that can prove that single-sex schools are more academically superior, but there is evidence that shows a negative impact which includes stereotypes and sexism.
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