Submitted by Student (not verified) on April 6, 2008 - 8:16pm.
As a girl attending a gender-intergrated high school, I do witness the learning enviroment everyday. I think it is very true that learning does not differ between genders but rather from person to person. Gender seperation is not the problem with the learning in schools; it is the teachers creating a negative enviroment. In honors courses, teachers are concerned about the learning and not the social environment. This does not hold true for every classroom, where the problems are. At gender-separated schools, the social environment is sometimes priority over the actual learning. There would be no need for separating of gender in class if educators worked on the learning aspect of school and less on the social environment where children are comfortable. At jobs and universities, most people do not get to choose such a specific environment. The same situation should be created in the classroom in order to keep children grounded to the real world.
Witnessing Gender-Integrated Education
As a girl attending a gender-intergrated high school, I do witness the learning enviroment everyday. I think it is very true that learning does not differ between genders but rather from person to person. Gender seperation is not the problem with the learning in schools; it is the teachers creating a negative enviroment. In honors courses, teachers are concerned about the learning and not the social environment. This does not hold true for every classroom, where the problems are. At gender-separated schools, the social environment is sometimes priority over the actual learning. There would be no need for separating of gender in class if educators worked on the learning aspect of school and less on the social environment where children are comfortable. At jobs and universities, most people do not get to choose such a specific environment. The same situation should be created in the classroom in order to keep children grounded to the real world.