Disadvantages Of Coeducation

There has been much debate in recent decades about coeducation in high schools and university stages. This debate has been going around since the introduction of public education in the State of Kuwait. People who support the idea of coeducation think that it would create companionship between the two genders, increase confidence and at the same time prepare males and females to mingle early in life before they go into society. However, in reality coeducation has a negative impact on self-confidence and it also has a negative impact especially on female students. The fact is that coeducation has been adopted in parts of the Kuwaiti educational system and it has failed. Because of our cultural values, restrictions and negative impact on female

Since ages males and females have been brought up studying together in the same classrooms and environments. One of the disadvantages of not applying coeducation is that by separating the male from female children for many years, it would mean they will not be mixing with each other or even learn from each other ("Advantages of Coeducation"). If children are separated from each other, and each of them is taught at a separate school or class, they would not have a chance to learn about each other. Furthermore, when they learn about each other early in life, they can treat each other in the proper manner when they grow older and enter the real life. This can be only done if they study together in the same school and in the same class. Coeducation provides these students to have such an experience early in

Most people believe that coeducation creates a kind of companionship between the two sexes. It is also claimed that coeducation gives more confidence to each of them to act before the opposite sex. However, this argument is not entirely true because most girls would feel shy in the presence of boys in the class room and cannot participate in the class room activities. When teachers ask questions, most girls, even if they know the answer to the questions, would feel bashful to speak out before boys. Moreover, girls would gradually lose their self-confidence and would prefer to be silent all the time rather than taking part in the discussions. In addition, in places where there is coeducation, there are many clashes between cultural values and