Proposal to broaden gender gap in schools

schools segregated into gender the newest hot topic among school administrators in the city? Could it be because it isn’t male students who dominate the classroom anymore?

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The debate is on and more Philadelphia schools may be joining the three schools in this city out of 42 in this country that are segregated by sex.

Though I believe that there is always room for improvement in the way America’s youth is educated, I don’tthink that dividing classrooms according to gender is really that necessary.Our differences, after all, are what make us a whole.

Although it’sbeen proven that boys and girls differ in learning styles, I believe that a co-educational environment would be more beneficial to students overall because social skills are just as important as fundamental academic skills throughout life.

Sure, I would have probably been more confident in the classroom had my classes consisted of only girls as a child. However, as I advanced from grade to grade as a student, I became more and more confident in myself and my abilities along with fellow students of the opposite sex. Had I attended a school that was strictly female before college I don’t think I’d feel very comfortable in the collegiate classrooms I frequent now because they’re co-educational. I’d probably be more worried about boys than school now as opposed to then, because young adults are just as hormone-driven as adolescents nowadays.

And why all of a sudden are

It’s been reported by Newsweek that boys represent 44 percent of undergraduates in college, which means that more girls are going after a college education than ever before. It seems to me that the tables have significantly turned for women and education when compared to the pre-title IVdays of education.

In view of that point, I’ve been lead to wonder how Title IX, which works to ban sex discrimination in federally funded schools, would be affected.

According to Martha Woodall, a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, “Support for single-sex schools is getting help from the federal No Child Left Behind law,which has led to proposed changes to Title IX regulations, to encourage more single-sex public schools.”

It isn’tjust logically wrong to assume that girls and boys would do better in classrooms that catered mainly to their physical make-up, but it’salso wrong federally.

Bottom line, I think that if coeducational classrooms aren’t fulfilling their tasks at hand to accommodate both sexes, then they all need to be reformed, not abandoned one by one. Separating schools into gender will only broaden the gender gap when it comes to education, which isn’t fair to all students.

I think that single-sex schools would only work to reinforce stereotypes that schools should be striving to eliminate in this day and age. If they don’t, then what will be next? Same-sex corporations?

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