Single-sex education is better than co-ed.

Yes but some people may not be intimidated by the opposite sex, but rather their own sex. In fact they may be intimidated by attributes that are genderless, therefore not having to do with gender. Therefore your proposal doesn"t solve the intimidation issue. My rebuttal is to the point that single sex schools have less distractions due to the other sex not being there. This would be right under these circumstances, there were not any gay people, only different sexes can be friends, people only like to impress with dumb things, and that people only like to impress the opposite sex. My opponent tries to exclude gay people out of the equation, when there are gays in single sex schools which to the same things pro provides above. Also people who are friends do dumb things like this all the time because they want to impress them, and even people who aren"t their friends. What my opponent is essentially saying is that there can only be distractions if two different sexes are in the class. In fact people may be more inclined to do dumb things in single sex schools since they would do dumber things to make their friends laugh rather than try to act smart which is what most people like nowadays. Therefore in double sex schools, people will try to less to embarrass themselves than as if they were just hanging out with their friends because they are trying to make the other sex like them. "For many heterosexual students, dating is one of the biggest issues at stake when considering co-ed schools, single sex schools and the impact their choice will have on the social life of campus. Co-ed schools offer the obvious benefit that the dating pool on campus is all-encompassing." This helped my case. "However, as previously 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!" Refer to my distraction point. "Single sex schools may be a major turn-off for heterosexual students who believe that their dating options will be severely limited. Most single sex schools take this concern into consideration, however." How do schools take this into consideration, not only that, how do they fix it? It"s not enough to only consider it. Moreover "co-education is bad because if a boy and a girl gets a relation, it would cause a bad future for them. One more thing is that girls can easily cheat the boys who are very lonely and boys can also cheat the girls who are lonely. This can be related with money." Well this is making the assumption that they will have a bad relationship. WHat if it leads to a good one? There are of course good relationships that have lasted since that grade being referred to. Also by my opponent"s logic, no one should get into relationships because they have the capability of it turning out bad. And why assume that a bad relationship isn"t good? For example, there is a saying that the most damaged are the wisest, why? Partly because they learn from their mistakes. "And it does introduce both the genders to certain things too early. For example if girls are talking to each other and they call each other 'slut' Just like that, guys might pick that habit up.. And they won't even realise how bad that is." If people are in a same sex school, they can too call the same sex sluts which would also result in the same thing, therefore my opponent"s argument is meaningless. "A strong reason for co-education is that separating children for a number of years means they will not be mixing and learning about each other." - Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. "In academic terms it should be noted that both boys and girls at the Cathedral School attain the same distinction in terms of examination results: the percentage of A*/A grades at GCSE here is equally high for both genders, indicating that neither gender is disadvantaged by the other, in fact the reverse is true, both are enhanced by the presence of the other." Source- http://www.cathedral-school.co.uk......