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Single sex school vs. Co-ed school

             Co-ed schools are more beneficial than single sex schools because they reflect our real life. Co-ed schools also advantages the youth by giving them many chances to learn from each other as a different gender. Lastly, co-ed schools may help their students with their future marriage and relationships.

             In co-ed schools, many students are exposed to a real-life society, even though they might have not realized it. In the real life, hardly any societies have a group single-sex-ed people. Societies are made up of males and females, so that they can supplement each other. However, if teenagers are separated into their genders, they may have a problem adapting to a society later on in their life. Nevertheless, co-ed schools make up for this problem by naturally building man-and-woman society. Then, students from these schools eventually learn to work as a group and as a society, which prepares them for the ‘real’ life before hand.

             In addition, co-ed schools also give the students opportunities to learn from each other educationally. Since the co-ed schools have both boys and girls, there is more possibility of better education. Especially in Korea, because its students are so competitive, there needs to be an ideal person or people to be alike. For instance, a boy can look upon a girl who is at the top of the whole school and feel motivated. It is an excuse to say that in co-ed schools, girls or boys get distracted by their opposite sex and do not study. However, the attitude of mind to study is important for one’s sake. Students who do not really want to study have a reasonable possibility that they are not going to study hard in single sex schools. Thus, if students’ consciousness of studying is erect, co-ed schools can help them by giving great look-and-learn environment.

             Lastly, co-ed schools even help their students with their future marriage and relationships. On top of all those benefits that co-ed schools give, they even prime students for relationships. People not only have to have friends of the same sex, but also the opposite sex. When students are in single sex school, possibility that they are going to make friends of the opposite gender is pretty low. However, co-ed schools have both genders for students, so that they can be friends. From learning how to be friends with their opposite gender, they also learn about their opposite sex. Boys learn about what girls like and do not like and vice versa. By so, they will eventually understand what to do when their spouses get mad or sad. As one can see, co-ed schools have both genders so that their students can also learn about their opposite gender.

             Co-ed schools are able to overlap single sex schools in real society, education, and future relationships. Thus, co-ed schools are far more advantageous than single sex schools.