When it comes to single-sex schools, many people have mixed feelings about it. Whether having all-male schools is a good or bad thing for them. When you think about all-male and all-female schools, the first thing that comes to mind might be “I would never survive in an all-male/female school,” depending on your age. But there are many and perhaps more advantages than disadvantages. When it comes to females in a single-sex school, their learning experiences and outcomes may be different from those of males. There are many statistics that suggest that all boys or girls schools are more beneficial to students, compared to a traditional co-educational school. But plenty of other static data might say otherwise. One reason why people might say that all boys or girls schools are better is because there is no distraction from the opposite sex, or no pressure to maintain a predictable appearance or look to the male/female eye and because this If there is it is one less distraction, the student will be more concentrated than he would be in an integrated school. One disadvantage is that later in students' lives, when they have to enter the real world, they may not know how to interact socially with the opposite sex. But according to many people (and mine) academics are more important than someone's social life. Your social life will only take you so far in life, but knowledge is forever. Males and females work at different rates and in different ways. Girls seem to learn what the nature of the beast is if they have attended all-boys schools, while boys who teach themselves seem to find girls more disconcerting. (Garner, 25). Boys learn best when they are with girls and actually learn to get along. (Garner, 38).Garner experienced a......middle of paper......y. Since about 1900, education in America was largely contained within a single-sex framework. That structure was the result of society's opinions, expectations, and opportunities for each gender. Typically, males required more formal education to facilitate their worldly occupations, while females received a much less formal education, replete with the practical skills necessary for their intended domestic life. Boys and girls require such different educational experiences and subjects that they have been educated separately. (Cohen) In colonial times, boys and girls were educated separately. But by the mid-19th century, education funding was becoming a public expense, and boys and girls began sharing lessons. But they still sat in separate sections. Coeducation has only been a norm in the United States since the end of 1800.