Parents- what is your thoughts on single sex education? Should the girls be...

[elaeblue]

...with girls and boys with boys? Not doing a survey just interested in other peoples opinions.

[Mary D]

What age group are you referring to?

5th/6th grade -seperate

Highschool ages - together.

[rami]

To get a better education I'd go for single sex- but for social development co-ed is better- but then should school be the place for social developement?

My experience was 2 years in single sex, then a mixed for the last 3 years- I did really well for the first two- and really badly for the last 3! (I was tormented by the class yobs)

My daughter went to single sex for up until 6th form- and whilst she did well academically- that particular school seems to produce extremely bitchy teenagers- she's now at mixed 6th and doing well in both aspects!

[karwamarwee]

Like anything there are pros and cons.

They say they get a better education and are less distracted.
(however I don't how true that is)

The downsides tho Girls can be terribly mean and it's worse when there are only girls around.

And everyone I know who went to a singled sexed school were totally boy or girl crazy and they had no idea how to interact with members of the opposite sex.

I won't be putting my son into an all boys school.

[Cookie On My Mind]

At our middle school, we had a class on puberty - and the genders were separated. I felt this was appropriate because it probably would have been filled with a mixture of laughter and embarrassment - since we were all so immature.

At our high school, sex ed. classes had both genders together. I thought this was still kind of embarrassing lol But I was still naive (I was a virgin until marriage after all). I think most of my classmates were already having sex already anyway, so no one else was really embarrassed.

[stephareeno]

It depends on the age. When we learned in 5th grade we were separate. I think at that age it's good to be separate because it can get too "giggly", you know? In high school, who cares. Half the student body is having sex anyway, so they probably know more about it than the health teacher...

[NeverKiss]

I think it should all be together so they can see what happens to each other and see the pictures of what they can spread around.