Poll: Are single-sex schools beneficial compared to current co-ed public schools?
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It's always been my opinion that kids that go to Single-Sex schools don't really develop properly. You kind of need interaction with the opposite when you're growing up, especially during puberty.
Sexual tension is, for the most part, removed from a single-sex school. It allows for more focus on studies. Of course, I go to a single-sex school, so I may be a bit biased.
Agreed, good sir/madam. I lack a specific class, but my school neighbors an all-female school, so we can interact socially during lunch-hours and after school.TheNecroswanson said:
Yeah, I can't imagine that going to a single sex school would be beneficial in any way shape or form to social development. It is possible that you might improve grades by some small degree, but employers are going to want to hire people who know how to deal well with people of both sexes. No employer in his right mind would hire someone, regardless of how good their grades were, if they were devoid of proper social skills. So in the long run you do more damage than good even from a strictly fiscal standpoint. And much more important than that, of course, is that people who have good social skills are going to live happier lives overall.
I go to a Catholic all boys school. My parents are poor. I have VERY bad social skills as I have very little time to interact with people, let alone girls. And as for the "no sexual tension = better work environment" it's absolute BULLSHIT. Every day a class gets interupted by some guy who wants to impress his friends in some childish way. If there were girls in the school they would act more mature like when they do outside the school i.e. when they;re with girls in their normal lives.
This. I have no female friends and I have no clue about what to say or do.madbird-valiant said:
M'kay, there's a big difference between honestly asking our opinion and asking us to do your homework. Which is it you're asking us to do?Coolness said:
Either way, I think co-ed schools have too much potential for unnecessary drama. Just ask any couple who're going out whilst still in school.
On the flip side, single-sex schools are boring, and I personally feel that activity between both males and females is needed for a normal life.
of course single sex schools would be better. As a member of a co-ed school i can't help but look at all the skimpy skirts and at the girl that decided today she didn't want to wear a bra. God women why do they have to be attractive. Honestly i don't think it matters that much.
The major "reason" for wanting to segregate schools by gender is basically to prevent kids from humping each other. On the other hand, as I've said before, that is pretty much a part of growing up and learning about life. I'm one of those guys who thinks that adults should not be having sex with kids, but teen on teen intercourse is fine. I tend to think we should be distributing condoms, and forcing sex education on everyone irregardless of the wishes of the parents.
THAT said there are other benefits when it is done correctly, in a private school setting for example catering to one gender allows for a gender-specific focus and slant to activities than isn't going to exist in a co-ed enviroment.
As odd as this might sound I mostly see the benefits to the latter when dealing with the "elite" of society so to speak.
For all talk about equality and everything not everyone is going to succeed in life, and truthfully I do see the criticisms about the public school system basically preparing most citizens for an existance as lower middle class worker drones, and honestly that is a realistic approach because that is where most people are going to wind up. Nothing we do is going to change the fact that people to work the factories, clean the floors, and take out the trash are always going to be nessicary in greater numbers than the people doing the important jobs. Even if you train and educate everyone heavily all it does is raise the celling and you still wind up with as many people on the bottom.
The way our system works is that the public school system does kind of prep people for normality, but has internal competitive mechanisms (or it's supposed to) that exist to take the best of each generation and give them a chance to move out of that through grants, scholorships, genius programs, and the like.
At any rate, a private school enviroment along with specialized gender-specific education is a reasonable thing for those children who for whatever reason are born to privleged parents and will never be part of the regular rat race. Some will disagree, but I can see the need for specific education to prepare someone for that kind of lifestyle, as being differant from the guys who are likely to grow up to pump gas or whatever.
Elitism is never popular, and this is ironic because I've always been pretty close to the bottomost rung of society for reasons I won't get into. I simply think of things from the perspective I would have in other positions.
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THAT said there are other benefits when it is done correctly, in a private school setting for example catering to one gender allows for a gender-specific focus and slant to activities than isn't going to exist in a co-ed enviroment.
As odd as this might sound I mostly see the benefits to the latter when dealing with the "elite" of society so to speak.
For all talk about equality and everything not everyone is going to succeed in life, and truthfully I do see the criticisms about the public school system basically preparing most citizens for an existance as lower middle class worker drones, and honestly that is a realistic approach because that is where most people are going to wind up. Nothing we do is going to change the fact that people to work the factories, clean the floors, and take out the trash are always going to be nessicary in greater numbers than the people doing the important jobs. Even if you train and educate everyone heavily all it does is raise the celling and you still wind up with as many people on the bottom.
The way our system works is that the public school system does kind of prep people for normality, but has internal competitive mechanisms (or it's supposed to) that exist to take the best of each generation and give them a chance to move out of that through grants, scholorships, genius programs, and the like.
At any rate, a private school enviroment along with specialized gender-specific education is a reasonable thing for those children who for whatever reason are born to privleged parents and will never be part of the regular rat race. Some will disagree, but I can see the need for specific education to prepare someone for that kind of lifestyle, as being differant from the guys who are likely to grow up to pump gas or whatever.
Elitism is never popular, and this is ironic because I've always been pretty close to the bottomost rung of society for reasons I won't get into. I simply think of things from the perspective I would have in other positions.
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