In a time when discrimination against a specific sex is considered wrong, the idea of single-gender education seems to be the option of choice for most schools. It caters to the needs of both sex of child, male and female. A male-only school allows young boys to be rambunctious at no expense to female classmates who sometimes have the tendency to be demure at an elementary school age. Statistics show that female elementary-age students mature faster physically and mentally as well. By placing both genders in the same educational environment, the school system is forcing both of sexes to fit into the standards of the opposite. The male students who are in single-gender schools aren’t concerned with impressing female students, therefore, female students aren’t distracted by the boys’ often hopeless attempts at making good impressions.
However, with no exposure to the other sex, this makes socializing difficult when the two are finally interspersed in later years. The method of separating students during lower grades and bringing them back together in the higher ones poses a problem when selecting a grade level to fit the student. With this method in place, there is a higher chance of finding younger females in the higher grades and younger males in the lower grades, thus dissecting age groups and eliminating a sense of unity between similar age levels. In the end, the single-gender education system is best. By placing females in higher grades or in advanced classes, the problem is ultimately fixed. Various studies done also show that elementary age schooling is the most important of all 12 years. The process is shown to do more good than harm with very few, easily fixed side-effects. Separating students is a progressive and effective process that school systems should adopt in order to better educate children and young adults.
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