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 Why Co-Ed?
Coeducational schooling offers students:
- an environment that embraces diversity and equality
- experience with a broad range of personalities, activities, and lessons
- positive peer role models who are male and female
- opportunities to practice leadership in mixed sex settings
- respectful, supportive friendships with children of both genders
- preparation for co-ed life in families and workplaces
Coeducational schooling offers teachers:
- a work environment that embodies the principles of diversity, integration, and equality
- opportunities to mentor both boys and girls
- the chance to hone skills needed to teach diverse students
- opportunities for promoting cross-gender cooperation and friendship
- the ability to engage students in a wide range of interests and discussions
- a chance to combat gender stereotyping among both male and female students
Single-sex schooling is harmful because:
- it promotes gender stereotyping
- it is unwelcoming to students who don’t conform to traditional roles
- it diverts funding and personnel from proven educational methods
- it says exclusion is acceptable and diversity not valued
- “Separate but equal” classrooms are never truly equal
- it fails to train students for shared leadership in adult workplaces, families and communities
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