Sunday, November 16, 2008

Give single-sex schools a try - The Boston Globe

Give single-sex schools a try - The Boston Globe

What are the pros and cons of attending a single-sex school? Try to list 3-5 of each and then discuss each other's ideas.

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32 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would say that this is a good idea in some ways and bad in other ways. It might help some students perform better with having all the same sex students in their school but it also might make students not perfrom as well as they good. I say they have students who want to go to a all girls school or a all boys school got to one but if they don't want to don't make it mandatory for them.

Anonymous said...

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Spencer Grassie

Anonymous said...

I think tht this is a bad idea because girls need boys and boys need girls. If people of the same sex see each other everyday than tht might make them bi. Students might send more time with the opposite sex beacause they dont see them in school, instead of doing their homework.

This is a good idea beacause i think tht grades will be better and people probabily will spend more time on homework and less time with a relationship.

I agree with Spencer.

Justin Costa Period 2

Anonymous said...

I agree with Spencer Grassie. There are some good ideas and some bad ideas with having single-sex schools.

M.King
Per.4

Anonymous said...

In some cases single-sex schools are a good and bad thing. They are good because the different sexes won't feel inferior to try and do there best because of what the other one will think. They are also good because then the girl won't try and spend all their time showing off and getting the boys attention and vis-versa. However, they can be bad because if must of your life you spend with the same sex, you won't be educated on how they act around you and how they are. Also, when you have the same sex school, especially in the girls situation, there tends to be more drama and cliques which are also not good.

~Brooke Renaud
Period 5

Anonymous said...

i think it is bad and good good because guy will stop harasing girls but then they might get into more fights with each other for the girls it can be good because the wont fight over guys but the school then might hace more rumers and drama witch is not good because it can lead to bad things

~~Megan Otto~~

Anonymous said...

The single sex schools are a good thing and a bad one i am thinking that the single sex schools are going to do good things for the kids because like Spencer said they wont be spending time with a relationship and more time with school. The bad side to this is what if that is the school that u live near and u have to go there and the rest of the school has bi sexual kids what would the kid that was forced to go there do????

ryan

Anonymous said...

i think its good and bad.i think it is good cuz they wont get distracted.but it would be very boring i would not like it.i have alot of girls that r my friends and it wouldnt be cool if i had to leave them and go to a all boy scholl.i wouldnt like it.

Anonymous said...

i did the coment above
jgracia perod 4

Anonymous said...

i think it would be a good and bad idea. it would be good cause they may pay attention better. but even if the opposite sex were together in a school its thier decison to pay attention in school or not. so i dont think they should make a single sex school. i agree with spencer grassie on if students want to go to an all boys school or an all girls school they should but if they dont they shouldnt have to. also i agree w/ josh gracia because i also have a lot of guy friends it ifand i wouldnt like i had to leave them either. i would have to say that school would be a lot more boring if we did have to go to seperate schools.

alex salois
period 7

Anonymous said...

i totaly agree with the first comment and that they can go if they want to but they dont have to go if they dont want to.


Geoff Stanley

Anonymous said...

i agree. they're are pros, and cons of going to same-sex schools.
social life, and grades could go up or down depending on the person.

Anonymous said...

last comment was Emily Harris Period 2

Anonymous said...

i agree with josh i have a lot of guy friends and would like to see them not just girls it would get a little boring but then it would be good cause i could focus on school work and etc. i also think its good because then we wouldn't have to deal with boys and there fights maybe just girls in there fights but that's nothing

Danielle period 3

Anonymous said...

Pros- less disstraction and more focus on the student to bring out their best quilities. The Article thinks "Girls feel safer and get a chance to shine in leadership roles that boys often monopolize in coed schools; boys are less tempted to engage in attention-getting, disruptive behavior"

Cons- smaller social environment. There is no evidence that the student learn more in a single sex school. "Critics say that the single-sex schools with high achievement scores and high graduation rates often benefit from motivated students, involved parents, and highly skilled teachers - not necessarily from the fact their students are all boys or all girls."

The Article also states that there is a greatly growing number of single sex schools since 1995 in the US. It also says that attendence will be optional and additional options will be provided.
(sorry mad long)

Katie Theiss

Anonymous said...

pros:people will focus on school,the girls won't have to act to make guys like them,and the grades will be better becuse the will be no distractions

cons:girls wont be able to experience hows guys act around girls, guys will be more self-confident about themselves and then they seem full of themselves, and they will spend more time on homework and less socializing with friends

-Hannah Wilson period 4

Anonymous said...

I think that single sex schools can have their ups and downs. There will be no distractions so more time to do homework/schoolwork but people will also never work with the opposite sex which is requirered in many jobs plus social activities.

-K Pearson

Anonymous said...

Ithink that there are good and bad things about single-sex schools. It would help people to concentrate. But you should get used to being around boys and girls because the whole world isn't going to be separated for you when you get older.

Anonymous said...

above is Morgan Per. 5

Anonymous said...

there are good things about singl sex schools and thier are some bad it all depends on which way you would like to look at it.


RJ

Anonymous said...

I do not think this idea is bad at all, this might make that genders of students focus more on school than social life.

-sam bed

Anonymous said...

i think that if you go to an all boys school and a all girls school you wouldn't be able to meet a girl that you really like and it think that i might have an effect on the boys more than the girls because the girls have a lot more friends that are girls but guys have a lot more girl friends. but i have a lot of girls that are my friends so i wouldn't like going to a all boys school i would really have an effect on me. i would say the same thing for the girls because i wouldn't think that girls would want to leave there friends because they talk about stuff that guys don't want to know. so thats y i wouldn't go to a all boys school.



Trevor sirois

Anonymous said...

In same sex schools, grades would definitly be better. But on the other hand, a huge chunk of the social part of school will be eliminated.

Zach Tavares

Anonymous said...

i think it is a bad idea guys need girls and grils need guys




ethan f

Anonymous said...

I think it could work out either way.One way is it could make a large number of kids perform better, but i also think it could make a large number of kids perform worse than they have in the past.
Eric Gordon Per.4

Anonymous said...

I think so long as enrollment in these schools is purely voluntary then why not? If they dont want to go to school with the opposite sex then that would be a great alternative.

Dan Laine

Anonymous said...

I think that sam-sex schools are perfectly fine. It's parents choice if they want to send their kids to a school like this or not. It's totally parents choice especially if they want they're kids not go get distracted and get an awesome education, but personally i wouldn't like it.

Anonymous said...

oops. ^^^^
rachelle dubois
per 7

Anonymous said...

in someways i think they might be a good idea because they will be little distractions like girls and boys but then we will e more likly to get in to trouble to go see your boyfriends and girlfrineds
mregan 4

Anonymous said...

I think the do not see any pros to this because what will it change. And the cons are that it will take away from their social life, some kids would not like it and that this would cost more money to make a whole other school.

Nick Q.

Anonymous said...

Pros- more kids may be able to focus better without trying to impress the opposite sex. Con- high school is a time that should be important not only in acedemics but it should also be a social time.

chelsea thiboutot
period 5

Anonymous said...

I think same-sex schools keep the kid's focus on schools.
It can also end half of the drama in schools today.

k valcorba / seven