Single Sex Classrooms

Apr 28, 2008 8:50 AM

Guest :

Isnt this a little sexist for the school board?

Apr 28, 2008 8:56 AM

Guest :

This material seems to be biased in the same way of the civil rights movement where the authority's are deciding which way an individual should be educated based upon gender which is hardly different than basing these views upon race,religion or sexual orientation. It is a form of descrimination in itself. If these proposed views take effect there is valuable social and acedemic knowledge being deprieved from the students. Please reconsider on these views.

Apr 28, 2008 9:32 AM

Barbara Pytel :

Here is what South Carolina is doing with this issue.http://educationalissues.suite101.com/article.cfm/state_wide_samegend er_classes

Apr 28, 2008 9:58 AM

Guest :

One thing that jumps out to me is that the system only teaches to the stereotype of a gender. This is the land of the free and home of the brave and we shouldn't be stereotyping our children.

May 1, 2008 7:41 AM

Guest :

I see some of the positive concepts of single sex classrooms, but I also see some of the negative concepts. What if the single sex classroom was put in effect now, and 50 years down the road its still in effect. Because of this there is a racial dispute between men and women like what happened with white and black people. Could our world deal with that kind of a dispute? And women in some cases are still now struggling for their rights as a free woman.
I think we need to think things through more than whqat we have and think outside of the box for what negatives effects it could have on society.

May 1, 2008 7:46 AM

Guest :

what are these kids going to do in the future when they have a job, and need to work with the opposite sex?

May 5, 2008 4:27 PM

Guest :

i am a student involved in the single-sex classrooms and i think it is very stupid and i strongly dislike it. my grade have remained the same and i don't think the program needs to continue any longer.

Aug 26, 2008 12:06 PM

Guest :

Our school has just implemented single sex classrooms. It also has the option for those parents who want mixed classrooms. I've only had two major complaints raised. The first come from the boys in the all boys classroom. They miss the presence of the girls "watching them is easier on the eyes than paying attention to the teacher". The other was from a parent who felt that her son would feel threatened by the bigger boys in the room because of his own sleight stature. She felt the presence of girls in the room would help her son feel more "safe" in the classroom. She opted for the mixed classroom. Go where you want with those statements.

I have 6 children in the Public Schools. Two are in same gender classes. My daughter who is in the 6th grade came home and said. Wow! It is so much quieter in the classroom without the boys. We really got a lot done, today. My son (8th grade) doesn't care one way or the other. He still has to cover the same material and knows he is expected to learn it whether a girl sits next to him or not and besides the segregation ends with the core classes. Electives are filled on a mixed basis. Recess and lunch also take care of the social matters.

Our highschool probably won't implement it and there really isn't much need to do it in the elementary until the 4th grade when course studies begin to be more challenging and are divided by various teachers.

The less distractions my kids have the better. My feeling is their job is to learn how to learn and to learn as much as possible. I hope that for the cause of one the majority is not left behind. May Common Sense not have to leave the premisis just because Political Correctness has entered its domain.

Sep 13, 2008 6:08 AM

Guest :

I am starting to thin that the all boys classroom is a great idea. My son is in 1st grade this year. Last year the school he goes to decided to implement an all boys 1st grade. I opted not to have my son join because I felt he wouldn't get along with all the boys. A girl a work with put her son in the all boys class and has seen a total 360 in his behavior at school. Last year he was suspened about 3 times in kindergarten, this year has loves school, he is paying attention. Me, well my son is having a hard tim paying attention in his mixed classroom. I try to talk to him to see what he is learing, all he can talk about is how this girl keeps kissing him.

I am really looking into switching him to the all bos classroom.

Oct 1, 2008 11:03 AM

Guest :

Single sex schools promote segragation which was supposed to be done away in the late 60's also single sex schools apprehend the growth of social skills including male and female interaction. Lets face it we develop our social skills through social interaction in our schools and/or our jobs. If you are going to create single sex classrooms then you are going to have to create single sex occupations because many of these students who attended these single sex schools develop apprehension when it comes to heterasexual social interaction

Oct 1, 2008 1:01 PM

Barbara Pytel :

Multiple studies will disagree with you. Girls are more likely to select male dominated fields like math and engineering when attending all female classes. Boys find it easier to focus when in an all male setting. Thank you for expressing your concerns. However, they are not validated by data. That is why the entire state of South Carolina is going to offer single gender classes.

Oct 13, 2008 7:03 PM

Guest :

Having a child learn in a single sex classroom does not mean that they will not be able to work or socialize with the opposite sex in the future. It simply means that during instruction time they will be with their same sex peers. Lets learn from what data is telling us and not look for problems...

Oct 27, 2008 9:22 PM

Guest :

If it is done correctly, I do not think that this is a sexist approach. It is already shown that men and women (and boys and girls) differ from one another in several ways, including physically. As a man, I am attracted to women. But remembering my childhood days, I was extremely self-conscious in the classroom - not because of the other boys - but because of the self-awareness that I had of myself and the "need" to impress the girls. I felt their eyes were always on me. I feel if I had an all-boys class, I would have done far better in school, and avoided distractions. One of the main issues for most boys when they go through puberty is an increased attraction to girls, and this can be a serious matter of distraction in the classroom. This is no one's fault; but that is the way God made us. It is true that we do not want to separate boys from girls all together, as that would make it difficult for them to work together in the future. However, I think that while classrooms can be same-sex, or at least some classrooms, a school can be co-ed. In my schools growing up, most of the social interaction that happened between boys and girls happened outside of the classroom (in the halls between classes, at recess, and at lunch, as well as after-school activities - which leaves plenty of time for social interaction). In fact, the main causes of disturbances in my classrooms, if I remember correctly, were those caused by the boys trying to impress the ladies. It has advantages and disadvantages. One disadvantage is that there is less time spent learning with the opposite-sex. However I believe it is worth trying, and can be extremely valuable for our childrens' education. I look at many of the comments listed for this article and it seems that many people seem to disagree with this philosophy of same-sex classrooms. But those people also jump the gun to say that it is sexist or wrong without giving any explanation of why, nor of citing any evidence of the fact that same-sex classrooms would be "horrible" for our children. When looking at the civil rights movement, we were dealing with a group of people who felt that whites were better than blacks, and that women were under men in the classroom. Today, some of these prejudices exist, but I don't believe a move towards same-sex classrooms can compare with the Civil Rights movements and the prejudices that ran deep through many peoples' vains. Consider the idea of same-sex classes, co-ed schools.

Nov 3, 2008 12:31 PM

Guest :

I feel that is a good thing because it will be better if there is and all boys or girls class. sometimes it is better for girls to get away from boys because they a to playful. Boys also would lik eto get away from girls sometines. Its not like you want see a girl or a boy. Some people that helping thats helping the teacher bacause she want have to deal with boys and foolish. However its helping the students out cause their paying more attention to the teacher and not the cute boy across from them.

Dec 3, 2008 3:54 PM

Guest :

No it isn't sexist. It's factual.

Dec 9, 2008 9:26 AM

Guest :

hi i am a student at highland jr high and i am doing a five paragraph essay on boys and girls attending sepperate schools and i don't think its a good idea. i need a few examles on how it would effect childrens social life can any body help me

Dec 9, 2008 10:28 PM

Guest :

I don't see the problem with same-sex classrooms. I actually am for it. It will get the students to pay attention more and the teachings can match the students better than before.

Dec 13, 2008 7:07 AM

Guest :

The best of both worlds! www.trinityschools.org

A private, coed school with same-gender classrooms. It has been working for almost 30 years and the teachers and students love it. Plenty of social and sports activities bring the students together. They each lunch together, have after-school activities together, chat in the hallways...but when it is time to study and learn...they go to separate classrooms. The results are fantastic! Both genders excel at math (required calculus), science (required physics/Matlab) as well as art (studio and art history) and music (theory, composition and performance). This incredible school works!!

Jan 28, 2009 11:22 AM

Guest :

what the person said under me

Mar 3, 2009 2:03 PM

Guest :

Student enrollment in these classes is VOLUNTARY. Parents know their children better than anyone and are given the OPTION of enrolling their child in a single gender class. Many wealthy people pay lots of money for their children to attend private single-gender institutions, so why can't the average parent have that option as well?

Apr 23, 2009 8:29 AM

Guest :

as a student in high school i do believe that separating boys from the girls will be harsh, HOWEVER they may be separated in one or two of their classes, but still able to be together in other subjects, so self development to the other gender may happen. Before a separation takes place, the stereotypical statements must be proven right or wrong
P.S please search for positive and negative attraction to the students likings.

May 5, 2009 10:22 AM

Guest :

I think that this needs to be examined and studied further. I have been researching this subject of same-sex classrooms for a research paper, and have found studies that have amazed me in what a difference it made in schools. Yes, there are the bad stories, but you need to ask yourself why does it work so well in one, but horibly in another. What are the other factors involved? I was very skeptical about it at first because I thought like many, "how sexist!", but the one thing everyone should realize is that not every answer is always going to be the answer permanantly or in the same context as what it appears, we should be always evaluating what right. If we don't help change the world the world will change it for us.

May 19, 2009 1:31 PM

Guest :

girls help me to do better in school because i try to impress them

May 26, 2009 8:48 AM

Guest :

We should not separate boy and girl classes

Jun 2, 2009 5:01 AM

Guest :

The student who posted a comment on may 5th obviously needs a little more schooling.." my grade have remained the same" bad grammar is a little funny when leaving a comment for all to see!

Aug 19, 2009 9:26 PM

Guest :

im sorry for saying this i truly love homosexuals but wouldnt this increase homosexuality across america i dont think that would be a good thing

Oct 5, 2009 6:25 AM

Guest :

I do not agree with single-gender classrooms. True, males and females learn differently, but that does not mean they should learn seperately. Perhaps males and females can HELP each other instead of discriminating. It's like having two different high schools; they're going to dislike the other school(s) merely because of society. Don't authorities think students would do the same thing if we seperated them based on gender? Boys would begin thinking they were dominant...girls would think likewise. At least when we're all together, we know how to work TOGETHER!!!

Oct 15, 2009 7:57 AM

Guest :

thank you for this articale it helped me because i am pro for this because my class is doing stuff with this

Oct 19, 2009 10:14 AM

Guest :

I think that single sex classrooms are a good idea, because there would be less drama, girls are less intimidated in an all girl classroom, and girls are more likely to ask questions in an all girl classroom. Boys need more attention, they will ask more questions also without girls present, and in all, there would be less drama in the classrooms, if they were single sex classrooms. Truly the research proves this, but girlls are more intimidated. I think that the material should be the same for boys and girls, seperate them into seperate classrooms for 2 months, and have a test, and then put them back into a classroom with both sexes and have them take a test and see how drastic or not drastic the results are.

Oct 28, 2009 9:41 AM

Guest :

I think that this is not right. the reason why is becuase,our children are going to grow up and have a life of their own. they will soon marry a girl or guy so whats the whole idea of haveing a single sex school this is redicules nonsence

Nov 6, 2009 7:24 AM

Guest :

i think the same sex in one class is stupid. here we dont have that and our scores are pretty high. i think doing that to kids is just being a little sexist and stupid. idkk i just disagree with it.

Nov 6, 2009 12:06 PM

Guest :

not a good idea. I come out of a single sex school and i can say it stunts the growth of being able to have proper relationships with the opposite sex.It's a;; part of growing up, why remove it.