I think it is somewhat important to ponder on the issue for awhile.

being Captain Obvious:
Single gender schools are schools that allow only one particular gender : Boys School, Girls School
Co-Ed: short form for Co-education schools both sexes in one school, may even have double gender dorms, or separated dorms but the school remains co-ed.

So what do you think, which do you prefer?
if you prefer co-ed, please state reasons, why, how should it be done, is it ok concerning alternative social issues like security, unwanted pregnancies (where applicable), illegal activities, government concerns etc.

If you prefer single gender education system, please state why? should it be this way for all times, social issues concerning the future progress of this and so on.

My view:

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I think it is fair to say that single gender schools are safe for the sake of those states that have people who are generally more subtle and well controlled as well as more educated.
I figured at least by theory, one country such as say, XXXtasia (has nothing to do with any country whatsoever), has say a population where crime rate is high and children grow up from the bronx, and violence among teens are many as well as serious, it should be considerable for schools to separate genders in order to prevent say unnecesary pregnancies, violent unto genders, etc etc.

For me, I grow up in a relatively peaceful town, and in any case, I am happy to say that I am all agreeing on Malaysia to instate the posibility of a co-ed school , for here, the security is slightly lesser problematic, I would say it is safe considering how much more important education is nowadays as compared with mingling with a girlfriend from highschool. Even now, without co-ed, there are always kids who venture one school to the other to meet with their girlfriends, I don't think that is wrong.

Socially I would say, it is a better step to actually starti harmonizing the common separatist view of genders than to separate it even further, one of the steps especially for a state like Malaysia, should really consider for the benefit of society, considering how even today, beneath the social skin, one tends to find sexist remarks at every turn of the corner.

Deffenitly Co-Ed. The Single Gender school system has been replaced here for quite some time know.
I think the last schools who used a single gender policy have been closed or have changed to co-ed about seven years back.

In my opinio, it's better for the social development to have co-ed. It's way more fun to have both guys and girls in your class then only one of them. I guess single gender is in a way more strict and more disciplined then co-ed, but those values have been watered down.

What I mean is: People used to pay much attention to the education of their children. One way to certify a good education was to seperate boys and grils, so they woudn't get nasty. Ofcourse, this was mostly the case because of the fact that the children stayed over at school.

In Belgium there are no single gender schools anymore I think.

Yay!! An all girls school sounds wonderful!!

Haha.. okay in all seriousness (although I wasn't entirely joking..) I think it would be nice to keep the kids' minds on school work instead of sex (since most of the population is heterosexual). But there is still the idea that many kids may not know how to deal with the opposite sex when they get out of high school (although that can also be addressed elseware).

I think something definately needs to be done in our school systems to better educate our kids, although I'm not really sure that splitting the sexes is the way to go- but it is a possibility. In short, I suppose I have nothing to add that is helpful in any way to this post, and I apologize for the ramblings.

By the way- I think you'd mean single sexed or co-ed school system. Gender doesn't define whether a person is biologically male or female.

I think the Co-Ed is a good time to know more about the girl, that is one of my point of view. One of my old school system is seperate the girls and the boys dorm, with a fully guard 24H/D. When the day time girls and boys can study together, just only night.

LenasLover

Yay!! An all girls school sounds wonderful!!

Haha.. okay in all seriousness (although I wasn't entirely joking..) I think it would be nice to keep the kids' minds on school work instead of sex (since most of the population is heterosexual). But there is still the idea that many kids may not know how to deal with the opposite sex when they get out of high school (although that can also be addressed elseware).

I think something definately needs to be done in our school systems to better educate our kids, although I'm not really sure that splitting the sexes is the way to go- but it is a possibility. In short, I suppose I have nothing to add that is helpful in any way to this post, and I apologize for the ramblings.

By the way- I think you'd mean single sexed or co-ed school system. Gender doesn't define whether a person is biologically male or female.

you do realize pretending that you are still in school, boys and girls together would mean lots of discrimination to a non-heterosexual person such as yourself.

but I guess separating is good, only that it is progress we are talking about. On general , I see lesser progression on a separate genders school than co-ed.

me being a prime example, I never talked to a girl until I was like... 4th grade.

Definitely co-ed,, XD...there's something about single-gender schools that i don't like...they always use the term "exclusively for boys or girls" when referring to their schools...i think co-ed systems are better because one gets exposed to and is able to interact with a variety of persons...many single-gender schools in our country have started to become co-ed...

I'm totally for single gender.

this way you can play solid snake and sneak into the girl's dorm while wearing active camo.

Personally, I do not think it matters that much. This is from personal experience, but I have friends who used to be from single sex schools, and it is not as though they are now afraid of the other sex or have severe trauma due to being schooled with only one sex. Further, many seems to think if one goes to a single sex school, one is cut off from all contacts with the opposite sex. This is simply not true. The singles sex schools around my area have many school events that are hosted with cooed schools, such as dances. Moreover, there is plenty of informal activities, ie: parties, and clubs and organizations that students could join so that they are not deprived of the opposite sex. Though personally, I like coed schools, since if I am going to sit in class for 8hrs a day, I would like someone nice to look at, but from an educational value point of view, I do not think the difference between the two types of schools are very large.

Co-ed... better to have interaction between both sexes; I would think if they were isolated from elementary through High School, when it comes to working with them after that their could be awkward moments when it comes to team work. Diversity is makes best results.

Omnidevil

LenasLover

Yay!! An all girls school sounds wonderful!!

Haha.. okay in all seriousness (although I wasn't entirely joking..) I think it would be nice to keep the kids' minds on school work instead of sex (since most of the population is heterosexual). But there is still the idea that many kids may not know how to deal with the opposite sex when they get out of high school (although that can also be addressed elseware).

I think something definately needs to be done in our school systems to better educate our kids, although I'm not really sure that splitting the sexes is the way to go- but it is a possibility. In short, I suppose I have nothing to add that is helpful in any way to this post, and I apologize for the ramblings.

By the way- I think you'd mean single sexed or co-ed school system. Gender doesn't define whether a person is biologically male or female.

you do realize pretending that you are still in school, boys and girls together would mean lots of discrimination to a non-heterosexual person such as yourself.

but I guess separating is good, only that it is progress we are talking about. On general , I see lesser progression on a separate genders school than co-ed.

me being a prime example, I never talked to a girl until I was like... 4th grade.

I don't necessarily agree with that. It is hard to guess what people are going to do- unless you can refer a case study where this has occured- and in that case I would love to read it.

As I said, I'm really on the fence on this one. And since I don't have kids and probably won't have kids (unless I win the lottery) this topic is far removed from my life, I guess I haven't thought about it much. ^_^'

I like co-ed schools. Some of my friends go to single-sex schools and they hate it. I go to a co-ed school, and like it a lot.

I guess it does facilitate a more helpful and interactive social crowd. I hate to see there are more guys out there who have never talked to girls until they reached 18. That be sadness.

Co-ed. Reason being that the reason i think they split people up is only to prevent early interaction between females and males. However, from all the girls that I know that came from single gender highschools, they turnout more slutty than those that are from co-ed places, defeating the purpose almost.

I think the Co-ed school is better than the single gender school. ^^ Because if I join the single Co-ed school, I'll be hard to talk with the girls. ^^ I've ever felt like that, because my junior high school is a single gender school type^^, and after I go out from that school and find the new one, I felt different and hard to talk with the opposite gender(female for me ^^), because in the previous school, I only talk with the boy, and as we know, the boy and girl are far different each other. ^^

Single gender schools are utter bull. There, I said it. I'm sorry if I offended anyone in the process of saying that, but it's just the way I feel. School is not just where you get an acedemic education. It's where you learn how to start your interactions with others in society in general. In a normal society, you do not split girls and guys up. Why on earth should you do it in a school? And for all those who think that being with the opposite sex during school can be a distraction, I ask how? People who are in 'all-boys/girls' schools still deal with the opposite sexes after school, at parties, etc. Saying 'a girlfriend/boyfriend' would be a distraction' goes down the toilet as soon as you consider the fact that if a person really wants to have companionship they're likely to find it on their own accord, with or without school.

In class, wouldn't talking with the opposite sex be as disrupting as talking to the same sex? So then, I ask finally: What is the point of a single gender school? Personally I believe it has something to do with the parents. I think that single gender schools are there because the schools were established during traditions of the past and they still remain (think about it. In the 50s the idea of a teenager playing rock music was considered rebellious. Of course a lot of parents would have wanted their kids in single gender schools) and because some parents still want their kids to go to a single gender school. I may be generalising a great deal here, but in a lot of situations the parents end up choosing the school for the child. The comfort of knowing their daughter isn't getting knocked up may be reassuring to some people, I don't know... Some people might just send their child to the school because they think it is a good school, despite whether or not it is co-ed or single gender. However, if someone sends their child to a single gender school, purely because of that fact, I think that person is either too protective of their child, or extremely traditional in the way in which they think. Neither is a good thing.