Single- sex education is better for education

R1) Competition My adversary asserts that the natural tendencies for boys and girls wanting to beat each other would benefit them in co education school. He is basically asserting that co ed schools offer better competition. (a) This is an assertion and not sourced Competition is competition and will exist regardless of single ed or co ed schools. Children always want to do better than the next. If anything as I will show below it discourages competition in some ways because boys are girls are constantly sticking to the basic idea of what classes they should and should not take That barrier is lifted with single sex schools, and the competition fact is still present. R2) Confidence I am going to call false on this. This is a baseless assertion that is just wrong "Studies show that one-quarter of the female members of Congress and one-third of the female board members of Fortune 100 companies attended girls" schools. This staggering statistic might be in part because girls in single-sex schools learn to feel confident about their ideas, and they more readily jump into class discussions when they are not self-conscious. In a girls" school, students are not worried about what boys will think about them, and they shed the traditional idea that girls should be demure or quiet."[1] Through this study we can see that girls and boys build confidence and often can shed traditional ideals about what classes they should take. This gives them the confidence to take other classes and end up being more well rounded in all types of areas. R3) Prep for real world I disagreed with this sentiment again. The purpose of school id education not interaction. You go to learn, and it is a truism that single sex schools produce higher test scores, Iq scores, and even sat scores. This is not limiting interaction with the opposite of sex at all, there are all after school programs where both sexes can interact, and they still have a social life outside of school. The measure of school itself is about producing grades and results and gaining knowledge. This is primary more feasible in single sex schools. R4) Respect for opposite sex This is false and not proven. Just because you interact with someone of the same sex more does not mean you are not going to have respect for the opposite sex. This is a baseless assertion. R5) best of both worlds again false, this is a baseless assertion with no evidence to back it up R6) Engagement Again my adversary asserting that interaction with the opposite sex is limited in single sex schools. Again there are programs that are usually set up that allow both genders to interact with each other outside of the classroom. This allows interaction , sociability, and the ability to grow while maintaining high test scores in the class room, and even leaving the ability for boys and girls in single sex schools to explore different career ideas without competition from the other sex There is often ideas that are set up. Boys are good at math, girls are good at reading. Boy's never hardly taking cooking classes. Ideas like this are heavy in co ed schools. In single sex schools you can remove that barrier, and still have the ability to function and grow with the opposite sex in after school programs and on your own time. Conclusion My adversary flat dropped my point about test scores, sat scores, and homework improvement being higher in single sex schools which was the entire purpose of this debate. Overall all single sex schools tend to make higher scores on tests and do better in scholastic areas. This is the purpose of education. The good news is that it does not limit interaction with the opposite sex, but maintains the focus on work and knowledge in the class room. After school in their own time or even in after school activities, you have the ability to communicate and learn how to interact with the opposite sex and you do so without losing the high test scores and grades that single sex schools usually lead in. [1] http://privateschool.about.com...