http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/the-big-question-should-children-be-taught-in-singlesex-classrooms-1035057.html
Summary:
Schools minister Sarah McCarthy-fry thinks children should be taught in single-sex classrooms. She believes that girls would learn better in single-sex classrooms, because then they won’t feel intimidated by boys en feel more relaxed, because they would be removed from social pressures. Besides girls opt less often for science, because this would feel as a boy’s subject. The results of research whether girls do better in single-sex classrooms has showed that they do. Although there’s a reverse, because all leading performances are selective single-sex schools than comprehensives. So this could be a reason why single-sex schools are doing better than comprehensives.
Opinion:
I think single-sex classrooms has its pros and cons. On the one hand I could imagine girls would feel more confident when the boys are removed, because they won’t feel the need to act cool while they aren’t and they don’t have to be scared anymore that boys will laugh at them when they give a wrong answer. For those reasons I could picture girls will do better at single-sex classrooms. On the other I think it could restrain the boys and girls to have a relationship with the opposite sex and besides it there isn’t yet a conclusive research which prove girls do better at single-sex classrooms.
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I think there are mostly downsides to this proposal. It's much more representive for the current society to have mixed classes. It's good for the relationship between girls and boys. Girls will feel less intimidated by boys(if so) when they get to learn them better.
and most important: Isn't it much more fun to be in a mixed school? That's an important quality for one's study-motivation.
I think this is such an old fashioned idea to put the girls and boys back to seperate classes. If the girls are not able to study or they don't get good results in mixed classes, what would they do when the finish school and start to work. Are the going to have jobs with only woman in their environment? That sounds rediculous to me.
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