Single sex education system is better than a co-ed system.

I hadn't debated it yet, and I'm happy for the chance. As my opponent has not provided his own arguments (as the con he doesn't technically have to) and instead focused on negating mine (which is why he doesn't have to, if all of my arguments fall he wins) I will devote the entire R2 to negation of rebuttals. I will adress each attack against my case individually, and bold why the attacks fail. Contention 1:My opponent's rebuttal of C1 revolves around the fact that not everybody is distracted by the opposite sex, through arguing that 1. ) younger children aren't distracted, 2. ) Not every teen is distracted, and 3. ) Students don't have the ability to interact with the opposite sex. I will adress each claim individually.1. ) My opponent brought up a claim made by my own source, stating that "The level of distraction that students may experience from being in class with the opposite sex does not typically come into play until they are older. "[1] However, the key phrase here is The Level of distraction. It does not say that younger children are not distracted by the opposite sex (in fact, it even says "[they] that may think they are gross"[1]), simply that it's not as distracting as sexual urges. The distraction still occurs in early education, but not as much as in highschools full of teenage hormones. Because students are still being distracted in early coed educational systems, the first attack falls.2. ) My opponent again brings up my source with the quote "There are many students, who maintain their social connections and still are able to concentrate in a coed school, it really just depends on the individual child"[1], and I am not denying this. However, my stance was not that every single student is distracted by the opposite sex, simply that the distraction occurs. After all, as it stated in my second source (that my opponent has used as well) "However, as already mentioned, some students find it more difficult to focus on academics at co-ed schools. After all, it’s hard to listen to your professor’s lecture when you’re constantly looking at that cute classmate across the aisle! "[2] Although I myself have been distracted by certain. .. assets, I'm not constantly distracted. However, I have also seen students whose entire school day revolves around trying to impress women. Occasionally, that's even more distracting than the women themselves :P. However, in a Single-Sex evironment, all traces of this distraction cease to exist. There is no way to refute that the distraction of opposite sexes will be stopped with seperate schools, and so because the distraction does not exist in Single-Sex schools, this attack fails3. ) This claim revolves around the lack of male-female interaction in school and so the kidsd will not be able to cope in the workplace. He did this once again by using my own source against me, as it's on the Pros and Cons of Same-Sex and Coed education. However, as it says in this same source, just because there are no members of the opposite sex, it doesn't mean that there will be no male-female interaction. Some Schools even provide transportation to female single-sex schools for parties[2] and as it said, " you’ll have people of every sex just outside the campus gates"[2]. This means that there are still members of the opposite sex in the city that students can and do interact with on a regular basis, and so it doesn't mean the two don't interact. Because Single-Sex schools don't impede on a studen'ts interaction with the opposite sex, this attack fails. Contention 2:My opponent attacks this contention with 1. ) the claim that students who go to Single-Sex schools are better students anyway, 2. ) I don't give a warrant for why Single-Sex schools are better, and 3. ) Students in Single-Sex schools don't get the neccesary female interaction.1. ) My opponent claims that this attack negates my entire contention. However, he forgets what the resolution states. It states that "Single-Sex education system is better than a co-ed system". We're not arguing that both school systems are of equal quality, simiply that one is "Greater in excelence or higher in quality" than the other. The fact that my opponent agrees that the education is more rigorous and students perform better, the resolution is affirmed and the attack does not count against me.2. ) Actually, the both of us provide reasons why it's better. I proposed that it was due to less distractions in school (which my opponent couldn't succeed in refuting) and he proposed that they have a more rigorous academic curriculum. As we have both provided reasons why Single-Sex schools are better, this attack fails.3. ) Cross-apply my argument made in defense of C1 as they both deal with the same thing. Contention 3:I had a bit of trouble discerning my opponent's arguments in this contention, but I believe they revolve around 1. ) Female teachers don't make a difference between schools, 2. ) Female administration doesn't make one side better than the other because they should have the same ratio, and 3. ) Boys are better in math.1. ) The point of the contention was not neccesarily that Female teachers provide problems, simply that with a majority of female teachers, the more highly-energetic male population is often misunderstood and mistaken for troublemakers. Because of this they are put on medication, held back, and put in detention simply for acting like they are biologically supposed to. Furthermore, this abundance of Female teachers brings a lack of masculine role models, bringing about more misunderstanding about how Boys are supposed to act. [4] "the male teacher as role model is invested with a particular masculinizing capacity considered necessary to counteract the feminization and emasculating effects of schooling on boys’ failing masculinities (Skelton, 2002; Martino, 2004) within such a context of a moral panic and public anxiety about the problem of failing boys (Weaver-Hightower, 2003; Titus, 2004)"[3] Thus, because boys misunderstood and have a much higher drop out rate due to role models who don't understand how boys act at an early age, their needs are not being met by the coed educational system and this attack fails.2. ) In a Single-Sex school, females wouldn't have much of a difference in a female school. However, in male schools, even with a similar ratio, females teaching at an all-male school would have the training to know how young boys act and should be able to teach accordingly. However, in an Coed school, this training is not available and they would have to treat both boys and girls equally, even though their learning styles and behavioral issues are different. Because female teachers at a Single-Sex school would have the training to deal with that sex, this attack fails.3. ) This attack really doesn't have any weight as even though different educational styles are brought into question, whether or not boys are any better in math doesn't really matter. Because this attack doesn't have any effect on the contention, this attack fails. Conclusion:Because my opponent has not presented his own arguments, all I need to do is refute the rebuttals against my own arguments. Because I have succesfully done this, Vote Pro :)Works Cited:1. ) . http://www.newyorkschools.com...2.) . http://www.universitylanguage.com...3.) . http://www.xyonline.net...4.) . http://earlyactionresearch.wikispaces.com...