do you prefer single sex or co educational schooling?

[thursdaymcgee]

It 100% depends on the student. I went to both all girls and coed schools (all girls for high school) and was miserable. I have three brothers and had no idea how to interact with girls - I found them flighty and boy-obsessed. Boys in junior high (and the ones at the brother school in high school) found my brashness funny and attractive; girls thought I was loud and annoying. Not until I got to college did I begin to have a normal social life again, and by then I didn't know whether to play at being a ditz, as my all-girls school had inadvertently encouraged, or be even more ballsy because I'm naturally a contrarian. To this day, I have almost no female friends.

OTOH, one of the few friends I did have in high school was an only child, extremely shy, and latently smart. She thrived in an all-girls environment where she didn't feel like she had to compete for boys' attentions, and she still talks about how high school was the greatest years of her life - which I'm FLABBERGASTED by because we ran in the same circles. She would have been run over in a coed environment (and was so eager to please, she might have ended up pregnant or in with a bad crowd to boot); I was so eager to be independent that I felt stymied and oppressed and ridiculed in a single sex school where cliques ruled.

[1924]

I don't understand people saying "Co ed school prepares people for the workplace". Have you seen how most kids dress and act in schools these days? It is absolutely nothing like the workplace and nothing how a workplace should be.