A for and against essay by Alba Carbonell

Girls and boys should be taught separately

Although it is not as common as it was before, there are still some schools that teach girls and boys separately or even they only accept one gender. In the same way, there are people who think that this has benefits for both parts.

On the one hand, this could indeed have benefits for the students, as it would eliminate the important distraction that implies being all together. People who support this position holds that school should not be a place to find a boyfriend or a girlfriend, but to study. The most appropriate time to socialize with both boys and girls is not the school time. Moreover, there are girls who prefer to socialize with their same gender and vice versa.

On the other hand, both genders can be a good influence on each other, and everyone can learn from these experiences. Students should not get used to being separated because when they face the real world they will discover that reality does not differentiate them –or it should not- and that gender is not a difference important enough to educate kids separately.

In my opinion, students have to be educated together and equally whichever their gender is, because this is not a matter that affects the education of a person.