Debate - Single Sex schools vs. Co-ed schools

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and gender-fair instruction". These can all be present in co-educational schools.
• Boys and girls have a good influence on each other's education. They engender good behavior and maturity – particularly as teenage girls usually exhibit greater responsibility than boys of the same age. Academic competition between the sexes is a spur to better performance at school.
• Single-sex schools are a throwback to the patriarchal cultures. In many historical cultures, only men were allowed an education of any sort. To perpetuate this is to remind women of their past subservience and to continue to hold them from full social inclusion.
• Teachers possibly becoming the wrong objects of interest in students. Taking the example of placing a young, beautiful lady teacher in an all boy’s high school, what do you get when pitting a female teacher with boys in their teens with raging hormones? Clearly, we can see that the teacher’s physical statures will obviously distract the class from ...

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