So, I have a pretty strong, albeit not very in-depth opinion on this. It’s proven to be more beneficial for everything to be co-ed, so obviously I’d prefer co-ed systems. I went to a co-ed system myself and I never really had any issues. In fact, it helped me develop skills with speaking to a wider group of people than a single-sex system.
Not to mention, if there were single-sex schools, where the hell would intersex people go? Sex isn’t binary, and gender isn’t real so it’s an asinine idea right off the bat!
I was reading in a book that girls actually do better in single-sex education (it was tested during specific age groups, but I forget which). It was arguing that this was because in school environments, seeing men around can trigger implicit biases that men are supposed to be better and smarter, which actually lowered the test scores of female students. I don’t know a lot on the topic, but I definitely thought it was interesting to read about.
This definitely would be a major issue if every school were set up to be only female or only male.
I’ve been to an all-girls school, for two years actually, grade 6 and grade 7. That was a… time.
In fifth grade, I was sooo good at talking with boys, like holy crap I was friends with every dude in the grade. Like, girls who liked them would get me to talk to the boys for them. Like geez, I was so smooth and so extroverted and ahh that was the life.
Then my parents decided this private all-girls school was a better school for me and lol I didn’t have a say or anything so I went. I withdrew myself, became a lot quieter and ruder lol. That first year was pretty rough for me, I didn’t bother making many friends because I thought it was going to be a one-year thing. Except for this one girl who wouldn’t stop but I’m grateful for her. Anyway, it was in that school that I finally went on my first overnight trip because it was part of the experience and my parents couldn’t very well force me to stay home unless they wanted to further alienate me. I enjoyed it thoroughly. It was such a change for me, like especially the bathrooms. They weren’t labelled and the first few months I was like “Is this the girls’ bathroom?” Lmao of course it’s the girls’ bathroom, there are no damn boys. Frankly, I just hated the whole pettiness of the school. All those trivial things girls fight about, yeah, amplified times a thousand. And my class was small, like six people, so if someone was mad, we all felt it.
Anyway, so Grade 6 ended and my parents were like hahaha we can’t afford this and then the school was like schOLARSHIP and so I stayed for another year. This year, I liked better because one, there were more people and two, more freedom. We went on a trip to Boston for five days. It was incredible(y expensive lmao). And we went to a winter camp to teach us cross-country skiing. I loved being away from home. Then, for math, they put me in this program thingamajig with one other student and we worked quickly and way ahead of the other people. I liked that. And then end of Grade 7 I bowed out and went back to my old school to graduate from Grade 8.
My boy-talking skills now? Non-existent. It’s terrible.
like all the guys at my school are bad at tests/don’t really care about their grades. Ok definitely some do but they aren’t exactly vocal about it, so if anything its the complete opposite at my school lol.
I sure am happy single-sex schools don’t exist here. I can’t imagine going to one, that’s just wrong in my opinion. Like you said, it helps developing skills with speaking to a wider group of people.
Plus, for some reason I get along better with guys, you’d see me hanging out only with them so not being able to do that would be a nightmare.
After going to an all-girls school for 5 years I really don’t get the glorification of single-sex schools. People were just as messy and problematic! There’s this idea that all the chaos happens only in mixed schools just because boys and girls are together but we still had fights both physical and verbal, people getting expelled and a lot more messy stuff.
Despite being an all girls school it was still male-oriented in some parts. The way we were disciplined was so coded e.g. “young women don’t act like this”, “ladies shouldn’t…”, “just because it’s non-uniform day it doesn’t mean you can dress like it’s a fashion show”. It got me thinking that if we were boys they wouldn’t care about our crop tops this much. The petty comments about girls wearing makeup and wearing their skirts short cemented this too. Even as a school specifically for girls you’d think they would cater to girls needs like free menstrual products in the toilets, letting the Muslim girls wear their hijabs with the uniform but nope!
I don’t like the idea the girls should be separated from boys because of “distractions”. It implies that boys are uncontrollable and that for some reason it’s girls responsibility to manage this. And can we please stop assuming that all girls are attracted to boys? Or anyone for that matter? Or that attracting male attention is their priority?
Me and my sister went to an all girls catholic school because we weren’t allowed to go to a mixed school whilst my brothers were allowed to . Another part of the reason me and my sister went to the school was because my mum worked there .
Every single day and I’m not even exaggerating, there was a fight. A lot of the times, the fight was because of a guy. Ngl, I would always run to go and see the fights but yeah the constant fighting was really unhealthy.
Although I did have some great times in my school, if I could go back and change the school I went to into a mixed school, I 100% would.
This is actually a good point! This happens in chess as well, secondary mixed schools that become mixed after a point can have these issues especially. However, schools can take steps to avoid this and often do in most developed countries. For instance, largely women are completely overtaking men in terms of testing scores and graduation rates!
Mixed bathrooms are actually becoming more common, and they don’t seem to have any downsides to them really. Lots of people use the mixed bathroom at my college and it’s clean, secure and tidy
I think it’s mainly because I don’t like sharing bathrooms with people (especially people I don’t know) cuz’ I’m afraid they’ll just suddenly barge in on me or sm. I mean adults should have more common sense when it comes to that. And I don’t like sharing stuff period. So I think It’s just me. I still have flashbacks from using a public shower at a beach to wash the sand out of my bu ------- and this dude just comes in and -------
I was put in a single sex school so I am not too sure. I never liked my secondary school because of how ruthless the girls were…especially when I had a tomboy phase and they had the audacity to change everything about me.
Another strange thing is that some parents send their kids to a single sex school so they don’t get pregnant but pregnancy can happen in an all girls school.
I went to a restaurant a while ago that had a bathroom stalls you couldn’t see through (thanks standard bathroom stalls for being terrible), and the bathroom wasn’t for 1 particular gender. I didn’t have a problem with it, and I thought it was actually pretty cool to see.
. Another part of the reason me and my sister went to the school was because my mum worked there 
I mean adults should have more common sense when it comes to that. And I don’t like sharing stuff period. So I think It’s just me. I still have flashbacks from using a public shower at a beach to wash the sand out of my bu ------- and this dude just comes in and -------