What are your opinions on single-gendered schools?

[Cubus]

If you attended such school - please write pros and cons of it.

[DJB72]

I went to a single sex school from age 11 to 18, with joint projects and certain classes at age 17 & 18.

I was bullied. Not physically - I'm a fairly big guy and I've never lost a fight - but psychologically. That kind of bullying is more prevalent today online but in the 1980s it was more subtle and direct.

Maybe at a mixed school things would have been easier. The bullying certainly eased after I got into sixth form and we had more mixed contact.

A boy a year younger than me was also bullied in a similar way.

He hanged himself from a tree in the school grounds. One of my favourite teachers found his body.

Did I get a better academic education than I would have done at the local comprehensive? Yes. Definitely.

Was it a better environment? Not for me. Certainly not for my friend a year below me.

Some changes have been made at my old school. More mixed classes with the sister school in the town. Even the cadet force is now mixed.

Not a great experience.

[Kilapan]

I was in a one-gender school, and when I was 10 years old it became a school for both genders. In my opinion it is better that they are of two genders and that boys and girls get used to interacting with the opposite gender from a young age. However, I don't think this is such a traumatic thing, all the people I know who were in such a school had no difficulty in overcoming a single gender environment. I think there are forms of organization within schools that are more harmful, for example schools that give great importance to religion, or those that are very strict with exams.
In my experience I must say that those two things were more detrimental to me and my teammates. It was a religious school and when we finished school nobody wanted to have anything to do with religion anymore. And he attached great importance to exams, which meant that the student climate was defined by the students who 'were capable' and those who 'were not capable'. It is like creating a system of social classes. Many are losing self-esteem and do not even try to progress.

[Julie_TS]

My cousin attended an all boys high school in the Cleveland area and he has always had nothing but good things to say about his experiences.

He has said that the atmosphere was more relaxed and that teachers were more at ease during classes, specifically the manner in which they would speak to students. He said teachers were more open, treated them more like adults than children and even the language would be a bit more 'colorful'.

They often partnered with all girls schools in the area, having dances & mixers, etc for social events.

[Julie_TS]

Thanks for the MHO!!!

[petitedollbabee]

I’ve been to both single gendered and co-Ed. The girls only school was a nightmare - lots of fights between students, not much support from the teachers, and barely any sex education. The co-Ed school was far better. Less fights, teachers were better and actually cared about the students, and we were taught about anatomy and sex education for both guys and girls. I don’t know if that’s to do with the schools themselves rather than the gender of the students, but I found that the girls only school was far worse than mixed school.

[KelleyNice]

An all girl’s school may be of no benefit to girls. However, an all boy’s school would be a huge benefit to boys because an all boy’s school would be designed for the benefit and education of boys. Coed public schools are designed to benefit girl and educate girl. They force little boy to sit still, be quite, and act like little girls. Boys are further damaged by public schools because at the elementary level 100% of teachers are female and except for coaches well over 90% of teachers in public middle and high schools are female and given the choice, female teachers automatically favor girls over boys.

Even if most of the teachers in an all boy’s school were female, at least they would be motivated to teach in a manner that is best for boy; not what is best for girls.

[suzzieQ]

Lol learning how to still and be quite is called discipline. Between 20% and 25% of elementary school teachers are men. Over 40% of secondary school teachers are men... You are grossly misinformed honey.

[KelleyNice]

@suzzieQ Hardly! I have actually been inside an elementary school. There were no men. Perhaps you visit a school and see for yourself.

[KelleyNice]

@suzzieQ I Googled and you are not completely wrong or right and neither am I as it is in-between.

A National Education Association (NEA) report indicates that there are 785,151 male teachers in public elementary and secondary schools across the nation compared to 2.4 million women.

While middle school and high school may have brought a few more male teachers into the mix, the truth is, the teaching profession was and really still is, dominated by women.

Most states report that less than 30 percent of all teachers are male, with the average coming in around 25 percent. To go a step further, male educators make up 2.3 percent of the overall pre-K and kindergarten teachers, while male elementary and middle school teachers constitute 18.3 percent of the teaching population. It evens out a little more at the high school level with men representing about 42 percent of the teachers overall. However, that study is based on 2014 and since the percentage of female teachers has increased. Furthermore, most principals are male and they are considered teachers.

A 2006 study by Thomas Dee, now a professor at Stanford, suggests that boys do better in classes that are taught by men, while girls are more likely to thrive in classes taught by women. The study found that girls were more likely to report that they didn’t think a class would be useful to their future if taught by a man, and boys were more likely to say they didn’t look forward to a particular subject if it was taught by a woman.

[suzzieQ]

Except you said 100% of elementary school teachers were women… that was blatantly false

[KelleyNice]

@suzzieQ You are right, as I discovered after I Goggled.

[suzzieQ]

Maybe next time it would be a good idea to actually make sure what you are saying is true instead of just making up random statements and presenting them as fact

[KelleyNice]

@suzzieQ Of course I should. That also applies to you since your statements was false.

[Agagagagaga]

@suzzieQ Maybe next time you should think before moving your fat sausage fingers to type something stupid out.

[suzzieQ]

@Agagagagaga you talk to you kids that way too?

[MrKinktastic]

Personally I prefer coed stuff in general. The boys often behave better when there’s someone they want to impress (though that does cause them to act up sometimes too.


I would also be interested in seeing some stats around it but I’ve definitely noticed a lot more of my buddies with sexual violence stories from when they were in dorms were in all boys schools.



Tongan culture is also a bit different but there is also the infamous fued between Atele and To’loa all boys schools. Those fights got nuts when I was in Tonga around 2002-4. One ended up causing a riot in the capital after a rugby game if I remember correctly (I was 14 at the time and it’s been a while).

[Jaximus-Lion]

Yea! We had that in Iraq, you know! Islamic republic agenda BS. So from age of six to eighteen , boys are in schools where it's just boys, And the same for girls where it's only girls until it's time for university and that's when it's mixed and yea! All the awkwardness. There have been fatwas which forbid free mixing between men and women , when alone. The objective of the restrictions is to keep such interaction at a modest level. According to Islamic edicts, men are not permitted to touch any part of the body of the women, whether she is Muslim or non-Muslim. Islamic jurisprudence laws have traditionally ruled that Muslim men and women who are not immediate relatives may not, for instance, socialize in order to know each other with a handshake and any form of contact which involves physical contact. What i think of it! It is not a good idea.

[John_Doesnt]

Awful idea created by close minded conservatives. Not only does it create sexual repression (kids won't be getting laid as often) it also makes students unfit to socialize with the opposite sex when they enter the work force. One of the main things that makes public school better than home school is that kids learn to socialize. If you send them to a school where they only socialize with one gender they're gonna act like freaks when they enter the working world and try to talk to the opposite gender.

And again, sexual repression. Most of the school shooters are Incels who never got laid. Going to an all boy school would create a whole lot more incels who can't get laid.

[DermalPunch]

Not so. I went to à single gendered school that was not at all conservative. The school started from grade 4 because studies have shown that girls tend to get shy and not excel as much academically when they are mixed in with boys once puberty sets in. The boys overtake them in effect. They shy away from "male" sciences like math etc. I have been in mixed schools growing up and in single gendered and this is absolutely true. I went to a regular high school in grade 10 and I regret it a bit.

[John_Doesnt]

@DermalPunch so you've been raised to think there are "male" sciences? I'm betting you had trouble socializing with men after graduating too.

[DermalPunch]

If you will notice I put male in quotes because of historical stereotypes. Women can study and excel in any science. Historically they have been sexistly prevented in those fields. In my school, many of the young women were brilliant in math and science. They have gone on to be developers and other types of still largely male dominated fields.

[John_Doesnt]

@DermalPunch so instead of addressing the problem of sexism, you decide to just segregate the girls from the guys? That is an extremely lazy solution. Like segregation of races. It doesn't solve anything, it makes things worse.

[DermalPunch]

No it was about equity and catering to the differentiated needs of female academic development during the precarious formative years from early puberty and beyond.

[Lucy68]

I have had a few female friends that went to all girl schools (with a couple of them attending an all girl Catholic school) and well some of them were a bit promiscuous to say the least. They were really sweet and smart girls don't get me wrong but they were extremely promiscuous

[Cubus]

How so? They say you're born this way :D

[Lucy68]

Born which way mind me asking

[Cubus]

"Promiscuous" in all girls school.

[Lucy68]

I never understood or knew. One of my former roommates at university not only was homeschooled but she went to an all girls school temporarily same with some of my university classmates.

[AmeerX]

I have been to segregated school and College after kindergarten.

Pros:

It wasn't a favoritism hotspot based on gender.

No allegation of a male teacher having with female students. Basically nothing like that.

And students focused more on studies.

Cons:

You didn't get to meet any girls. No dating and stuff. And in university did we get to meet girls.

[Ill_made_Knight]

I would guess this would be extremely bad for your social developement. You see all the "what does it mean when a girl / guy says /does this or that" questions here.
Now take the formative years of your life and remove almost all social interaction with the opposite sex.
For some reason the stories of priests molesting young males comes to mind.

[letuswaltzforthedead]

Honestly, that would have been preferred. Although I usually hear that all-girl schools tend to have stricter teachers and girls usually end up not learning how to interact with guys. On the positive side, there would've been no guys to deal with.

[lululemonangel45]

I attended a strict all-girls Roman Catholic school.

There was a lot of drama ! lol, however, it was a great environment for learning and we were able to form strong life long friendships with eachother

[juene]

Totally agree with this!

[BigschlongEnergy]

The school I went to had male and females but be one hell of a fantasy to be surrounded by Nothing but females My Dick would Stay hard All day in that fantasy But Yeah I think you need both male and female in a school so you can get interactions with both male and female.

[AviatorTom]

I went to an all boys high school. Excellent education... we weren't distracted by pretty girls in short skirts. Socially could have been better, we had to learn interaction with girls after school and on weekends.

[bolverk]

They are not that unusual in the UK as they let the male/female students learn in conditions that let them have the optimal conditions to learn, females learn best in 'quiet' classrooms, males do better in 'noisy hands' on classrooms, neither schools have the distraction of students of the opposite sex around.

[Miristheiss]

They are fine. I have no strong opinions either way. A lot of the catholic high schools in my city are all boys or all girls. They are pretty common and usually kids from those schools are quite successful.

[Cubus]

Where are you from, if I may ask?

[Miristheiss]

Kentucky, USA.
Schools are: Sacred Heart, Assumption, St. X, Trinity, DeSales, Mercy, Presentation,

[Miristheiss]

ps - Trinity has won 27 football 6A state titles. St. X and Trinity win the large school (6A) almost every year.

[Cubus]

Ok, thank you

[DermalPunch]

They have done studies that women perform way better without the presence of boys. I went to an all girls school and it did a lotnof good. The feminist rhetoric was damaging but the camaraderie and sisterhood were good.

[Cubus]

Do religious all-girls school also have "feminist rhetoric"?

[DermalPunch]

I didn't go to à religious girls school. The religious one's do not usually. The school I went to was à feminist school. Regardless, girls perform better particularly once puberté begins without the presence of boys.

[Cubus]

Do they have feminist schools in Morocco?

[DermalPunch]

There is a feminist movement here. Not a school though.

[dragoblack]

The idea of non-coed schools is to prevent romance, sexual desire.. etc. from interfering with education and higher learning... thing is it didn't work because not everyone is heterosexual, like it was designed around. So like young kids do, romance, drama, teen angst, bullying, fighting, and puberty ensues, no matter if it is coed or not

[OlderAndWiser]

If you think of the opposite sex as a distraction for teens, then single gender schools are a good thing. If you think that teens need to learn how to interact with the opposite sex, then it's not so good to keep them separated.

[BlueScorpio]

Meh, I really nothing against them. I guess the cons would be not really having the experience in knowing how to engage with the opposite sex, but that can be taught/learned with experience outside school.

[Anonymous]

What @KelleyNice is 100% correct. Today's public coed schools are designed around the needs of girls and ignore the needs of most boys, ho learn very differently and on a different schedule than girls. It's criminal how poorly our boys are served by our education system, an how little society cares about it.

[Anonymous]

I don't like the idea. Going to an all-boys school would have made me feel like girls were a different species or something...

The real world isn't all boys/girls. Single-gendered schools seem unnatural, and I wouldn't be surprised if it hinders people's social development and makes them shy and awkward when they finally start spending time with the opposite sex.

[Tina19]

I have been in both co ed and all girls school buy i would say co ed is much better as you get to interact with other gender and people in girls school are not very warm the environment is very strict compared to co ed

[hahahmm]

Better than regular schools because students focus on their work more - at least when it comes to maybe age 13 and up. It used to be that work officers were also segregated by gender.

[JustiReno]

They have 1ea catholic all girls n all guys high schools in my city, they’re top tier schools, close to eachother and they do dance together for home coming prom, wish I went?

[OddBeMe]

I guess it would depend on the student, perhaps? If she/he has trouble with discipline it seems like these schools would be best.

I mean eventually they’ll need to learn how to speak to the opposite gender.

[Summeroflove]

I never been. I have no opinion one way or the other.

[Guy13]

Great environment for study and friendship bonding

[HippieVeganJewslim]

I find it mad. There are many only girls’ and only boys’ schools, but what about non-binary genders? What if a pupil in a single-gendered school decides to change gender?

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

I think its utterly stupid. Both males and females are going to work together in real life and interact with each other, so isolating them in school based on gender doesn't hold merit.

[peedy]

I dont know,
There's now around here where I live,, I always thought they were a thing of the past kept alive by movies showng rich people sending their kids off to them

[msc545]

I've never been to such a school but I sort of wish I had. It would have probably made it easier to pay attention to school work and less attention to girls

[Blackcupcake]

never attended one, would rather die than attend one lol

[FunkyMonkee]

Unless the kids can walk around naked, I don't see what the point is.

[joeldalton]

I think they are a great idea. boys and girls learn differently so they would get a better education. Plus fewer hormonal distractions.

[goebenbreslau]

i'm against them
the islamic government of my country wants to create such schools, but they can't dare.

[18Uma21]

I went to a strict only girls high school for 4 years. It was miserable, I saw it as jail. No one was happy about it either.

[Mangospacho]

Pros: Its much easier to meet women there

Cons: Its much harder to get acdepted to those schools

[SmokinAces2000]

Why would I want to be in a school full of all dudes, no thanks

[manuzi]

I didn't even know this existed in the 21st century.

[dustybiker]

I would have hated it.

[Cubus]

Why?

[dustybiker]

All of my best friends have been men. I rarely get along with other woman. I don’t play the games they do, we clash. I can see same gender boys schools working.. but girls would but vicious.

[Cubus]

I believe teenage boys would clash a lot too

[dustybiker]

Of course. But men fight and get over it. Woman hold grudges.

[Cubus]

With this one I agree.

[berwise13]

I'm against them school teaches more than ABC's & 123 you learn discipline and social skills. I'm also against home schooling for same reason

[Sabretooth]

It's a stupid idea that only accomplishes the opposite desired affect.

[GREATaribaاریبہ]

single gender school is good for those who really wants to study

[Anonymous]

It could be good for girls because they learn the leadership and involvement

[Rania05]

Never been to one but I'd love it if I did

[Kelly6]

Nothing wrong with them

[Cubus]

If you would assume: in what way they are better or worse than coeducational schools?

[greenice27]

I did not study in such a school.

[MountAverage]

Not a good idea.

[TallAnon]

Out-dated and useless.

[Fuentes]

Breeding men to be virgins for life

[Luopio27]

Terrable idea.

[MrTaboo]

Should have more.

[Dinosaursandanime65]

A Great Depression