Single sex vs. Co-ed public elementary and secondary schools

[Shlup]

Urgh, too many thoughts! I guess that, for a bisexual, same-sex schools are no less distracting that co-ed schools.

Yeah, and I must admit... if I were raised in girls-only schools I would probably, you know... swing that way. On occasion. More than I have already.

[escobert]

Coed for me plz

[Female Ryuichi]

I prefer Coed, because being stuck with thousands of bitchy teenage girls sounds like no fun. Plus, I quite like hanging out with guys in school.

[Dingo Jellybean]

If it wasn't for co-ed schools, I wouldn't have found a love interest...so yeah...go co-eds.

[Moose Knight]

I don't agree that co-eds promote bad behavior because the guys always want to impress the girls. There's grafitti in the bathroom walls at my school. Did the kids who wrote it do it to impress girls...in a male bathroom?

If kids behave better at single sex private schools, then its because they're private, not because they're single sex.

[Thunday Man]

75% of my school day is checkin out girls heh, i dont think i could live single sex schools.

[Anaralia]

I don't agree that co-eds promote bad behavior because the guys always want to impress the girls.

Is this for me? (Gee, paranoid much?) What I said was that co-eds promote good behavior because nobody wants to be embarrassed in front of the opposite sex. There are fewer fights, though, but that's about it.

[Cloud_99]

I think it's important for the sexes to learn to co-exist. If anything the co-ed schools do not create bad behaviour rather, they prevent it. I go to a Co-ed school myself, but the boy's school that is fairly close to where I live has the worst reputation for bullying, vandalisation, and general bad behaviour in the area. So the statistics would seem to suggest that single-sex schools are the worst idea ever and need to be abolished immediatly. As for my own views, I agree they're a stupid idea. Not least because it reduces any interaction with the oposite sex that I have meaning I would never have met my best friend Sophie. This is obviously bad. Personally I can't see any up-sides to single -sex schools.

[Armisael]

I prefer Coed, because being stuck with thousands of bitchy teenage girls sounds like no fun. Plus, I quite like hanging out with guys in school.

Same for me.

[Moose Knight]

Is this for me? (Gee, paranoid much?) What I said was that co-eds promote good behavior because nobody wants to be embarrassed in front of the opposite sex. There are fewer fights, though, but that's about it.

No, I meant it in general.

[Polaris]

I think that we're backing into those times where girls used to study in a college for girls and boys for a college for boys.... it's totaly stupid what's the difference? We need to be always with the opposite sex. That suggestion is old!

[DMKA]

I really don't see where either are bad.

[Chaos]

I go to a single sex school (all girls) and I've turned out fine..get this, a guy looked at me the other day, I was all like 'OMG...hes like......male...'.
Nah, believe me, it has never been an obsticle with the whoel boy girl thing. There is plenty of oppertunity to meet and greet the males outside of school hours. And as for the whole 'Sue had sex with Greg' thing, it happens still.

Yeah it is more bitchy, but you stick a thousand menstural women into a building and you are bound to get bitching.

I think its a far more relaxed enviroment as no-one is trying to impress the opposite sex. In my area the single sex schools do better academically than the co-ed, which is good cos I can laugh at everyone else.

Chaos

[nik0tine]

I really don't see where either are bad.

So then what is the point of having single sex schools if they don't have an advantage over coed schools?

[TasteyPies]

So then what is the point of having single sex schools if they don't have an advantage over coed schools?

Because, without the guys around the girls can fart and belch. Realy, I know these things.