Single Sex School

The silver lining of single sex schooling has its positive effect that facilitate complimentary teaching style whereby more high academic achievers is fostered and essential attribute building assured during the entire prospect being carried out. It is known that single sex school provides a secular provision on the outlook of teaching a student, based on their nature and behaviour that lubricates the learning input that targets each gender’s general learning pattern. Both boys and girls have a distinctive learning pattern that needed to be catered accordingly to ensure a peak learning performance, which lead to a higher number of academically excellent achiever in single sex settings. Richard Hawley (cited in Caplice, 1994) back this statement

Single sex schooling provides the necessary stage for both gender to demonstrate and express themselves without fear nor embarrassment. For example, by comparing girls in single sex classroom and in co-educational classroom, girls are more open and engaging to any sort of class activity given in single sex classroom rather than girls in co-educational classroom. The reason that mask the phenomenon mostly rooted that girls behaves more passively and submissive (Swain and Harvey, 2002) when there’s the presence of male student while girls in all-girls setting tend to be more outspoken, athletic and expressive of their thoughts. Researchers also have observed that girls tend to lose their shyness and have higher self-esteem and confidence to brave any challenges. They become more competitive until they are no longer hold back by the societal standard of being the traditional “feminine” like taking interest in STEM subjects as well. Additionally, girls from single sex school are more likely to embrace sports without worrying about appearing like tom boys.” (Kennedy, 2010 cited in Austin Independent School District, 2011). Boys, on the other hand, are more inclined to take interest in fine arts such as music, drama, cooking etc. without being judged harshly or embarrassingly. Jill Rojas (cited in Vail, 2002), former Principal of two single-sex public middle schools, states, “You see boys being more supportive, and there’s less giggling if they have to read poetry”. This statement implies that boys are more cooperative and more self-expressed in a sense when are isolated from girls, given there is no need to play the alpha male when there are girls around to exhibit their coolness or “machoness”. Eventually, they are free to express their emotions that builds a wise attribute of combining both feminine traits of tolerance, cooperation, patience etc. and masculine traits. Generally, not only does single sex