Single Sex Education

Professor Robin Robertson said she could identify students from girls-only schools on the first day of class. “They were the young women whose hands shot up in the air, who were not afraid to defend their positions, and who assumed I would be interested in their perspective.” The topic of single gender schools is recently uprising and concerning many parents and teachers. Single sex school was more popular in the earlier days but they are now becoming more popular especially in private schools. Single gender educational settings are a somewhat common practice in private schools but are otherwise not practiced at all. Single gender education was common in the 1800’s but began to fade when mixed-gender school environments uprised in the late 1800’s. It is common in other countries but in The United States, most parents think that mixed-gender schools are more beneficial but do not even know the benefits of a single sex school. It provides educators to be able to design their teaching style directly towards a specific gender, it lessons distractions in the average classroom, boys and girls clearly do better in different environments and separating them would be very beneficial. Single sex schools also show that it lessens the pressure on students and also research shows that female graduates of single gender education excel more academically than those who come from mixed-gender classroom settings. Although some say that the different teaching style between the two genders when they are young will not really prepare them for college or life in general, with single sex education educators can design their teaching style according to gender (Green Garage).

When college comes around there will be mixed genders. The advocates do know that girls and guys do not all learn in different ways. What they that into consideration is that girls and guys are very different though for obvious reasons. It is a lot easier for the teacher to make the class environment, work, and lesson style targeted towards a specific gender. Girls and guys learn in different ways, so it would be a lot more beneficial for teachers to target the teaching style towards either a guy or a girl audience (Green Garage).

Although the same gender can distract just as much as the opposite gender separating them will decrease the distractions by a great some in the average co-ed classroom Separate the opposite genders from each other then they will not be as easily distracted. They will focus more on what they need to do schoolwork (Green Garage). When attending a single sex school, students can be more focused on their studies, and less on impressing their latest crush. Romance can largely be left where it belongs, outside of school. In general, same sex schools are able to create a better learning environment for the students (Green Garage).

Sax says there are no differences between boys and girls in terms of what they can learn. "But there are," Sax says, "big differences in the way to teach them." The hippocampus is the place in the brain that is for verbal memory storage. It develops earlier in girls and is larger in girls than in boys (ACLU)."That has a profound effect on vocabulary and writing," Gurian says. Boys have a smaller amount of serotonin and oxytocin, which are hormones that play a role in promoting a sense of calmness. This is the reason that you see more boys having an issue with sitting still and having a smaller attention span (ACLU). It is obviously a given and shown the fact that most girls learn and mature faster than most boys. According to Sax and Gurian boys need to move it, wait a year, and get outside. Children should be allowed and encouraged to move around while they do their work. Leg tapping, standing and doodling while kids read, write, or take a test. Kindergarten is a lot more academic than it was 40 years ago (ACLU)."We're asking 5-year-olds to do what 6-year-olds used to do," Sax says. Although opinions vary, some boys with a fall birthday may benefit from delaying school an extra year. Research shows that kids learn better after recess (ACLU). So by separating them it will give each gender the opportunity to do better in school.

Many parents and school districts hesitate from switching to single sex schools because they think it will cause the students to become socially awkward with the opposite gender in the future. As a parent would you be willing to take the chance of that with the higher chance that your child and or students will be a rounder young adult (NASSPE). Girls and guys are easily pressured by the opposite sex when it comes to certain things. In a school related environment it is girls are pressured to do well in poetry, English, and music while guys are pressured to do well in science and math. This info shows how girls and guys are pressured in different ways and by separating them they will be able to focus on subjects that are of the opposite gender would be better at according to society gives girls the opportunity to do well in subjects such as math and science instead of the traditional English and reading It gives guys the opportunity to do well in subjects such as culinary and English instead of the traditional math and science. On the same hand, it also lessens pressure on boys and gives them freedom to choose, as the society would call it, girly subjects (NASSPE). Taking the students out of a mixed gender school setting and separating them will give them the confidence to try things that are maybe targeted for the opposite gender. although boys benefit from single sex education it is shown that girls are benefiting more from it Girls can become more confident in participating in school.Girls are now extremely confident and excited about learning in the new classroom environment Girls are more comfortable this resulting in the pressure being removed and then resulting in them doing better overall in the classroom environment (NASSPE). Students will clearly do better if in their own comfortable enviroment.