Jane Trejo
WG5
Dec 10, 2014
Single Sex Education
Now in these days single sex education schools are becoming more complicated. Countries
consider single sex education as traditional as well. In addition, Muslim countries conceder
single sex education as religious as well. A lot of people argued that single sex education and
mixed gender. The people who support the idea that we should separate boys and girls according
to the gender say that when separate student that create a feeling of safety for the teacher and the
students when separate them. Other people say that the respect between boys and girls will be
getting better when you separate them, and there will be no distraction in learning. In the …show more content…
Boys and girls should be separated in the class room. The first reason boys and girls should be
separated in the classroom is that they will not focus on the teacher as well when there are
distractions from the opposite sex, and let the teacher felling un comfortable. For example, when
the teacher asks the students question in the class, the boys try to answer the question even they
do not know what is the question is talking about, or they do not understand the question. They
just want to get the attention from the girls and they want to say that the boys smarter than girls.
This situation lessens the improvement of learning for the girls, which can then lessen the
improvement the education for the country. In addition, the girls will not feel comfortable in the
class. For example, the boys always want to show off for the girls that the boys are smarter than
them. Furthermore, girls will participate less when there are with boys in class in order …show more content…
Andrew Mullins argues that “single-sex schooling
allows teachers to tailor their teaching style to the boys and facilitates a more rounded
educational experience. In a co-ed school, boys can opt out of curriculum areas where they
would be outperformed.” That means the instructor will feel uncomfortable in the class or in
the school if he or she has to use different teaching styles for different genders, and the girls will
be scared from the boys in the school.
Another reason boys and girls should be separated in the classroom is that this will reduce
spread the disease and make teenage pregnancy more likely. For example, when the boys and
girls study together, both of them communicate with each other, so probably that will let the
diseases spread in the school. In addition, when boys and girls do communicate in the class, they
will communicate outside the class. This creates an easy relationship with the opposite gender
and creates an environment where interaction between the sexes is easy and sex can happen.
As everyone knows, many minor girls get a pregnant because of having sex with the boy who