Single sex schools

No, I didn't attend any single school. I have weighed the opportunity cost of one and the other, coming to decide which one prepares me better for the real world. You have been insisting that the female school has helped YOU achieve more than you could in co educational schools. However, the world is not all bout you, all about the females. We are both women, we both know that females mature earlier than males. In fact boys and girls are a good influence on each other, engendering good behaviour and maturity – particularly as teenage girls usually exhibit greater responsibility than boys of the same age. We can actually help the males! :D Academic competition between the sexes is a spur to better performance at school. You are exactly right that we go to school to learn, not to interact with the opposite sex. In the coeducational schools, I have competed with males student, learned their logical thinking process and influenced to be better in maths and science. I didn't date any of the males when I was in college. If the individual has strong self control, then he/she would not be distracted by the opposite sex. We live and learn, if we are not open to the new things, to the rest of the world, we will be left behind. At some point in our lives males and females need to learn to work together. It's good preparation for the real world! In real world, it is not about just one gender. Even if you obtained higher academic achievement in your previous single sex school, that is not the only thing society measures you at. Co educational schools give both male and female students an opportunity to see how the other works under stress, offer more practical studies such as engineering courses and larger variety of computer technology courses. Again, it's useful experience for the real world. Merry Christmas to your family as well! I am sure you have lovely kids just like youself.:) Okay , but I will also tell you that there are brother schools to the school I went. There are 3 all boy schools in my area . They also have college prep classes and the turnabout for colleges in all these schools is 99%. I know many males that have attended these schools , performed extremely well and went on to college. My uncle is one of them and him and I are only a few years apart. He went to college and got his bachelors in science. He didn't need females to perform well in school. How you do in school doesn't depend on who is the classes you attend , but your own drive and motivation, your teachers , the quality of the education you receive , and often if their are distractions. Single sex schools do not hurt a student in any way. You do not need to go to school with one sex or another to get a good education. The boys and girls schools in my area , give out so many scholarships because they have alumnae that have gone on to graduate from Harvard , Boston College, Boston University , and many other colleges. They have alumnae that are doctors , lawyers, nurses, computer programmers, architects, and many other professions that donate money to their alma mater. How did they perform so well if it hurts to go to a single sex school. Why do you need anyone of the opposite sex in your school to perform well? You don't. If you think that going to a single sex school will cause you to not be able to compete with males in the workforce you are mistaken ... because you are taught in these single sex schools that you can do anything you want to do. You are not afraid in anyway of competing with the males. Nor are the males afraid of competing with females. Also maybe you yourself were not distracted by the males but again as you pointed out that is you personally. I think the best thing for any student is to attend a school that is the environment that is best for them as an individual. I do not agree with you , from my own personal experience or from studies I have read that anyone needs the opposite sex in the classroom to perform exceptionally. My sister and I both went to all girls schools, and my uncle to an all boys school and we all performed better than my brother who went to a co-ed school as well as my cousins.