All girls v mixed education

Bambai

Can anyone tell me the advantages and disadvantages of all girls v mixed school and indeed Educate Together v Catholic girls school. My daughter is currently in Montessori mixed with mostly boys. I am very happy with the mixture of play type, but I am wondering would she be better in mixed throughout, or would all girls be of more benefit to her.

Any information on this would be appreciated.

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ChanelCailin

Hi there,
I am training to be a primary school teacher and would recommend that you send your daughter to a mixed school if possible. The theory is simple...boys and girls will not live in seperate worlds when they grow up and so should be educated together. Children who attend mixed schools do not have as many 'issues' surrounding the opposite sex when they reach puberty as they are well used to eachother. Boys and girls need to realise from an early age that men and women are equals, can work together nad can be very good friends without any hint of anything else. I myself attended both mixed primary and secondary schools and have nothing but praise for them. We all turned out to be very tolerant about the opposite sex!

soccymonster

i go to a mixed secondary school at the moment! there is a mixed and an all-girls school in my area..i was friends with a couple of girls that went to the all-girls secondary school from primary..
they hate it! they cant interact at all and never have any fun! there is no atmosphere and its "all work and no play" for them really!
and in my mixed school, its the best craic ever, but there is also limitations were we have to put our head down into the books! and everyone gets along too :D..

so theres a first-hand view!..
id personally hate a all-girls school anyways..

embee

ChanelCailin wrote: »

Hi there,
I am training to be a primary school teacher and would recommend that you send your daughter to a mixed school if possible. The theory is simple...boys and girls will not live in seperate worlds when they grow up and so should be educated together. Children who attend mixed schools do not have as many 'issues' surrounding the opposite sex when they reach puberty as they are well used to eachother. Boys and girls need to realise from an early age that men and women are equals, can work together nad can be very good friends without any hint of anything else. I myself attended both mixed primary and secondary schools and have nothing but praise for them. We all turned out to be very tolerant about the opposite sex!

I went to an all girls primary and a mixed secondary school, and there were no "issues" regarding boys when I went into secondary school. That's a nonsense IMO.

I attended school in a mixed primary for Junior Infant, Senior Infants and First Class, before we moved to a different town, and I can tell you firsthand, all-girls was much, much better. I have vivid recollections of being in First Class and being annoyed by boys messing, shouting and throwing stuff around the class when I was trying to do my lessons.

This may not be the case for other people, but for me, I enjoyed school way more when I was in single-sex Primary. Making the transition from single-sex to co-educational wasn't a big deal, none of us "convent girls" had issues. I played with boys and girls outside of school, most of us did, we didn't think of boys as some alien species.

star-bright

I'm also a primary school teacher in training (3rd year) I went to all-girls priamry and all-girls secondary, i never had any issues concerning boys and i loved my school experience.
There are a lot of conflicting studies surrounding mixed v's single sex education, however from what i studied for a research topic it seems that end results may be the same in the end but girls in single sex education do better in sciences and maths than girls in mixed education or will at least show greater interest in them and are more likely to take up sciences.