Single-Sex Education Vs Single Sex School

Education refers to a systematic process of gaining knowledge and skills through studies. A better education is fundamental for all to go ahead in the life. A well-rounded person with satisfactory educational level usually in favour of most employer. This might be the reason why parents often bear the aggravating dilemma when choosing the right school for their children as this choice may affect their children’s future. By narrowing the choices to sending their kids to a coeducational or to a single-sex school, this paper argued that the coeducation might be more beneficial compared to the single-sex education as it improves interpersonal communication skills of the students between both genders, offers a wide variety of curriculum and co-curriculum

Nonetheless, Richard. F (2013) reported that studying in a segregated education system actually delays the development of interpersonal communication skills among pupils due to the separation of fosters stereotypes. In the classroom, the exposure to both genders provides a more constructive studying atmosphere as the classrooms display a greater diversity of perspective between both sexes. In the long way, the students grow to be more comfortable with who they are. The tendencies of drawing into awkward situations while conversing with the opposite sex are trimmed. Consequently, they become more confident and open-minded in expressing their views to the opposite gender. They also learnt to be tolerant of people who are different from them and to treat each other with respect since they were young. This serve as a preparation stage for post-secondary education as well as a training ground for workplace; a world that is interconnected where interaction with the opposite sex is inevitable. In other word, coeducational schools provide a more practical way of training young people’ soft skills and prepare an excellent foundation for the development of realistic, useful and lasting relationships in later

It might be true that students in single-sex schools can participate in class discussion and activities without fear of embarrassment or feelings of inadequacy in front of opposite genders. However, this phenomenon normally will not last for long term. In contrast, if boys and girls spend time apart too long and do not learn about each other, they potentially hold traditional stereotypical genders views. Blake (2014) states that coeducational discourage students from developing negative gender stereotypes. For instance, with the presence of friendly competition among both genders, they dismiss the pigeon-holing that boys are better in mathematics and science subjects while girls are better in the arts. They are not limited to what the society deems only one gender is capable of. Graduates from mixed-schools seem to be more self-confident and self-independent as they were acknowledged by their astounding talents and personal skills from the opposite sex. Apart of that, in single-sex school, their resources also often differed depending on whether they housed girls or boys. Many girls’ schools lack of laboratory space and equipment for science while boys’ schools were often better resourced. This is the reason why some feminists argued strongly for co-education as they believe that it may lead to a broader range of curriculum areas and