Co-education , must or not?
By shashank786
@shashank786 (26)
India
March 28, 2011 7:01am CST
It's a must. Boys studying in a boys only school or college have a lot of difficulty in relating to girls, especially if they do not have sisters at home. This problem becomes acute when they are forced to mingle with girls in a university undergraduate program of any speciality (I think expect mining engineering). Their attitude towards girls and outlook towards women in general is very different , and not a healthy one. They do change when they get into university, but after a very long time , and many of the old thinking and ideas still stick.
4 responses
@lady1993 (27224)
• Philippines
29 Mar 11
YEs, I also think that school should become co-ed now, fortunately almost all universities in our country is co-ed; but there are a few schools that are private- for boys or girls. I have visited an all girls school and it's not really good to have no guy presence at all, they aren't used to the presence of guys and even have relationships with girls. God made both genders so they shouldn't be separated. 
@mohdromly (165)
• Malaysia
29 Mar 11
I think education ministry should find one ways to overcame this problem.About co-education I think it must, but have to implement it with step by step according to age and carefully
@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
28 Mar 11
In todays world a family might have a mum and three daughters but no dad or a mum, dad and five boys but no girls. In life there happen to be females and males. Therefore schools should be co-ed and not have a single gender. If I had still lived in Bridge then I wouldn't have wanted my children to go to an all boys or all girls school. School A was an all girls school for those that passed the 11 plus. School B was an all boys school for those that passed the 11 plus. A co-ed school was suitable for those that didn't pass the 11 plus but standards were low. There was another two schools but not on my side of the city. I lived in a village three miles south you see. The only other alternative would have been the Catholic school next to school A. To a young person that comes out of a single gender school a co-ed university will come as a shock. One of my friends now lives in Brighton but he is divorced and his child still lives in Kent. His son goes to the co-ed school with the low standards because he didn't do well in the 11 plus test. When my friend was a child he went to a school that wasn't near my area of the city. Still that school had poor standards but at least it was co-ed.
@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
29 Mar 11
I am the eldest of 5 girls. When i was in high school, my father enrolled me in an exclusive school for girls. I enjoyed it.
But when i went to college, i find it difficult to relate to boys. I feel ashamed having to pass by their group. I feel inferior to the boys. Over time, i was able to have my group of friends boys and girls. Slowly, i adjusted and overcome my shyness.
