Do single sex schools give a better chance of a good education than mixed shools?

I agree with Kevin about the teaching being the absolute key element above all other factors in the variables of educational styles.

People also gravitate to whatever they experienced as a way of validating their own choices also.

I can see both sides of the argument. i was profoundly relieved to go to a girls school at 11 as I came from a hugely female dominated family and I think I had a total of 5 conversations with boys all through primary so alien were they to me. Although it could be argued I should have gone to a mixed school for that very reason..I disagree though I think I would have just been stressed.

It's not like those attending single sex don't have any involvement with the oppo number either is it? life does exist outside school!

It's changed a bit now also ...my daughters school has a boys school that it mirrors. They have joint discos and trips and stuff.

Of my friends who went to mixed ( only 2 of them ) they do have better tales to tell...

Certainly better for boys. Recent research has shown this, although it is rather obvious. They perform better under male teachers, and I would have thought that this was vital for those from single parent families, and without the distraction of girls. Boys tend to show off in front of girls, and try to differentiate themselves from the more naturally diligent girls, by misbehaving and not working. The dynamics vary with age of course, but are always present. Basically, there are too many female teachers in school, many are feminists who do not support boys, and have skewed the curriculum and the way it is taught toward girls. Hardly surprising that boys aren't doing too well these days. So, splitting the sexes would have less value if boys still had to put up with female teachers.

I think I can give you a good answer. I am originally from Iran, grew up in Germany and live in the U.S. since 1993. I work part-time as a driving instructor and I have students from single sex schools and coed schools.

The short answer is this: depends how good your school is. It could be a single sex school but have bad teachers. Or it could be coed and have good teachers.

As a general rule I have noticed that the single sex schools have a better education because they tend to be private and have better teachers. In Los Angeles I would say for guys the best school is Loyola which is a single sex school but for girls it would be Harward Westlake which is a mixed sex school.

Single school kids are a little bit too open when it comes to talking to the opposite sex and don't know the limits. So socially not disadvantaged but in real life people may take advantage of you if you are a female. In Coed you learn fast that guys are jerks and learn to defend yourself.

So yeah, girls who go to singel sex schools are more nicer and get take advantage by guys more easily.

That said it is important what YOU want. if you a girl and you like less competative and more cooperative environement and you don't care about boys that much and you want to have female fun, go to single school.

If you can put up with the crap that goes on in mixed schools and don't care much about your future coed could be better.

But again you need to know what school has the best education and teachers first.

I have seen many girls from single sex schools and many guys from single sex schools going to Harward and Yale and best universities in the USA. BUT i don't know the reason is because it's a private school or because it's single sex school. Also there are some mixed schools that are so good that their students also go to top schools.

Finally, you might go to one and not like it...SO WHAT??? change school. It's not written in stone that you have to stay in 1 school. Go to one and stay there for few weeks or 1 year and if you don't like it change it. Done.

Girls have been brainwashed by every social factor to be passive while boys are pushed in the exact opposite direction. In a difficult class like math or science where learning is dependent on recall (trust me I'm a Neuroscience major) it is very easy for the passive to go unnoticed and uneducated and the aggressive to succeed and excel.

I go to an all boys school, and yes, I'm straight as an arrow.

Of course I'm not happy! I'm in year 10 right, and because I am already in love with someone, it means that having girls there wouldn't make much of a difference, because I still like girls all the same.

Boys are competitive and it's really funny because half the school would not know how to approach a girl, let alone talk to one. I guess social skills are diminshed somewhat.

I hate same sex schools. Yay for co-ed.

I went to both. All girls grammar, mixed high school, all girls college then, mixed university.

Mixed schools don't give better social skills esp. at the high school level. If anything, based upon my experiences and that of friends in single-sex high schools, a mixed high school causes far more social problems than one that isn't. High-school years are most important when it comes to being admitted to one of the better universities and being distracted by boys sending notes, girls havings fits because their hair wasn't perfect or their mother "forced" them to wear a certain thing, did nothing but improve my Annoyance Skills and I missed not being in a class with girls only so we could get busy cracking books (and praying for the weekend to arrive).

Research data has proven, beyond a shadow of doubt, that single sex schools provide a better education. Neither boys, nor girls, spend their school years cloistered thus keeping them from ever having contact with a male, or female, while attending a single-sex school. Single-sex schools have social functions where members of the opposite sex are present and many boys, and girls, have opposite-sex siblings who have friends!

There, most likely, isn't any current research information available on the separation of sexes at schools due to the militant women's libbers fighting so hard to get legislation passed calling for the integration of American schools, colleges and universities. Of course, to be on the "safe side" in seeing to it that women could destroy the male population's self-confidence, and steal his masculinity, they also fought for curricula to be simplified and promoted special education for girls as they were deemed to have been "neglected" when it came to a quality education. (This is Krap - in capital letters.)

Men and women do live and work together, in the real world, but there is no special code necessary to speak to a person of the opposite sex and, by the time male and female are in the full-time workforce, they are adults.

I preferred the single-sex education and thank my family, and friends, for providing me with a social education from the time I was a young child.

If you're one of those parents that want your kids to concentrate on their school work, single sex schools are better. So kids don't fall in love and waste their time daydreaming, on the phone etc.

If you think your child can be in a mixed school and maintain a good level of education, then mixed schools are definitely better. Cos this gives your child a chance to interact with the opposite sex, which he'll have to learn sooner or later.

I go to an all girls school and used to go to a mixed, and i definitely prefer the mixed one. i consider education being socially and educationally, which is what you don't get in single sex schools.

in mixed schools, you learn how to get along with guys AND girls, so you're friends with guys as well. in my single sex school now, girls don't know how to just be friends with a guy so they shag any bloke they meet out at a party!

so single sex isn't great coz u are distracted... with thoughts about after school when you can get with a guy ;)

I don't think so - as school teaches you alot more than what the teachers preach..

I go to a mixed school and although I hate most of the immature chavvy boys that go there, I'm glad and wouldn't want to go to a single sex school.

I went to mixed schools and I'm really glad I did. The idea of girls only school sounds horrible. Yes boys can be distracting for us girls but then so can our friends I doubt it makes much difference.

But surveys have apparently proved boys do better in boys-only schools but then surveys can prove anything....