Gender Separated Education

English persuasive essay

"Should boys and girls be in separate classes?"

Over the years the problem of a gender-separated education has become more crucial and stressing. The argument whether boys and girls should be in different classes has never ended. Both parties have been trying to convince the other that it is more beneficial to follow their own ideology. Well, it is true that both ideas have their own advantages and disadvantages but personally I believe that having a co-educational system is way better than separating the two genders. Others think that having the boys away from the girls would result to better performance and higher grades but I strongly disagree to this idea for several reasons.

In our history, it is written that women were once not treated equally. Up until the 1800's and 1900's, the female population started to fight for equality and give themselves the rights they always wanted. The feminist group was successful in bringing their dreams to reality. If we implement gender-separated classes, wouldn't that be a step back into the past where in girls and boys were divided. Wouldn't we waste all the efforts given by the great women? Separating the boys and girls would be very sexist and unfair. This would encourage discrimination between the genders. Isn't that what we are trying to avoid?

Boys and girls have different learning styles, that's true. That's why some people believe that it is better to separate the lads and lasses. so that the teachers can use different teachings styles to the two genders. This has been proven to increase the students' grades but personally I think that this concept would only limit the students to a specific teaching style and that this would lock them inside their comfort zone. Unlike in a co-ed classroom, both genders would try to adapt to the diverse teaching methods and this would make them flexible. And by interacting inside a same room, boys and girls would learn from each other's thinking...