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Jesse ortega

Ms.Vanhill

Contemporary composition

02 February, 2018

Single-Sex Education

Former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela believes that it doesn't matter if people

are separated into the same sex classroom, he said “Education is the most powerful weapon we

can use to change the world”. Mr. Mandela is right that education is the most powerful weapon

we can use to change the world, and it's time that the district and the school board see that they

shouldn’t make same sex classrooms. Is affo correct should they expand single-sex education?

There shouldn’t be same sex classrooms because the sex of the classroom doesn't matter, studies

are inconclusive about how helpful separating gender really is, and girls mature faster, so

potentially boys won't hold them back.

Single sex classroom genders should not matter . According to Affo, that

if the classrooms are separated by gender their will be a higher graduation rate.

Eventually, their is a possibility that it will be hard for students to assimilate into

"mixed gender" society later on in life. In other words this is saying that if the

genders are split later on in life they could become socially awkward and not

want to interact with the other gender in any activities. This is important because

then the genders would not end up together and they wouldn't be able to solve
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some world problems. This proves that the genders are better together then

separated because together they can accomplish many things.

Similarly scientists studies show as inconclusive which means that

separating

the genders will not help. “ Teachers were directed to create 'competitive,

high-energy' classrooms for boys and 'cooperative, quiet' classrooms for girls, but

this didn't work out.” In other words this means that segregated classrooms

wouldn't work out because the students would have a hard time paying attention if the classroom

doesn't have a wide diversity. This is important because the classrooms didn't really work out.

This proves that student would have a harder time learning with segregated classrooms because

they are already used to what they were being taught in class.

However ,segregated classrooms have some good reasoning. On the other hand, some

believe that males lower the education rates of females because men often bother the other sex in

class which distracts them from learning. However, the fact remains that segregated classrooms

don’t really work and that students will still learn at the same rate.

Same sex classrooms shouldn’t exist because the sex of the classroom doesn't matter,

studies are inconclusive about how helpful separating gender really is, and girls mature faster, so

potentially boys won't hold them back. Nelson Mandela has a valid point that education can

change the world.

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