Instigator / Pro

1516

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Topic

#2886

Single-sex schools are better for student learning and mental health.

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Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics

Winner

After 1 vote and with 1 point ahead, the winner is...

Ahmed-Alnawati

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Society

Parameters

Publication date: 03.14.2021 08:54AM
Last updated date: 03.24.2021 07:46AM
Type: Standard
Number of rounds: 2
Time for argument: Two days
Max argument characters: 10,000
Voting period: One week
Point system: Winner selection
Voting system: Open

Contender / Con

Saeedd

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Description

Single-sex schools are better for student learning and mental health VS mixed-sex schools are better for student learning and mental health.

Round 1

Ahmed-Alnawati

03.14.2021 09:04AM

Pro

Although it is fair to say that various mixed schools can increase high-academic performance, students in single-sex schools may have lower chances of struggling with behavioral issues. For instance, the research into a Seattle Elementary School suggested that students transitioning to single-sex classrooms displayed fewer behavioral problems. At an equivalent time, the boys getting into single gender education improved performance within the Washington Assessment of Student Learning, moving from 10% to 30% in their class, all the way up to 73%. Some experts suggest that single gender educational environments can help reduce behavioral issues because they provide students more room to feel comfortable. In a mixed environment, young men and women distract each other, and are more concerned with fitting into their prescribed roles and impressing others than pursuing their own personal skills. In single-sex schools, students are often more willing to require risks, because they are doing not feeling the fear of failing ahead of the opposite sex. Indeed, single-sex graduates have even rated themselves as having higher levels of intellectual self-confidence, a resource crucial for school and beyond.

Saeedd

03.15.2021 08:12AM

Con

Social skill with the other gender is an important skill that'd help a lot in life in many different ways, examples are benefiting, sharing, cooperating, and listening to the other gender. When not having these skills, relationships may become more awkward and school-segregated students might face fear in many different situations in contacting other gender. When schools prevent boys and girls from studying together in the same class, they wouldn't have the experience and will lack the social skill of communication with the other gender. Gender-segregated schools produce men and women who're socially weak when it comes to contact with the other gender. For example when a 6 year old joins a gender segregated school and then graduates, he'll eventually miss an important opportunity and would consider learning this skill later in his life rather than learning it earlier as a child, the skill is the communication with the other gender that'd help him a lot in his life. To sum up, why same sex schools are worse for our student's education, is it causes more anxiety, bullying, lack of social communication with the other gender, and more sexism.

Round 2

Ahmed-Alnawati

03.17.2021 07:10AM

Pro

I respect what Saeed said but unfortunately, I will need to disagree with it. He said that multi-sex schools will give students more social skills. Which I disagree with because how will it give them more social skills if students are scared of failing in front of the other gender. For example, the research into a Seattle Elementary School suggested that students transitioning to single-sex classrooms displayed fewer social problems. At an equivalent time, the boys getting into single-gender education improved performance within the Washington Assessment of Student Learning, moving from 10% to 30% in their class, all the way up to 73%. After we heard this I would like to conclude that single-gender schools are better for students' behavioral and social skills.

Saeedd

03.17.2021 07:46AM

Con

In my opinion, I disagree with Ahmad because if gender segregated students are more comfortable with the same sex, they lack the ability to communicate and engage with the opposite sex, as Ahmad said, same sex students tend to be friendlier and more formal with the same sex, but would not be so much with the opposite sex. For example, if a male student graduates from a gender segregated school, he will be more likely to interact with the opposite gender later in life, in his job, at university, etc. So the point is that learning in a gender segregated school may be functional and efficient up to a point, but when it comes to the opposite sex, it is not... if students have not grown up with the opposite sex, they will encounter many difficulties and obstacles when it comes to interacting with the opposite sex, and they will have less experience in doing so.

MisterChris

03.22.2021 01:52PM

Criterion

Pro

Tie

Con

Points

Winner

1 point(s)

Reason:

PRO says during the time one is a student, single sex schools help children focus on learning (he showed some stats on this but doesn't cite them).

CON argues that while this is true, the harms this causes later on in life outweigh. However, the resolution works against CON here... We're talking about the immediate impact on students, and CON's impacts happen when the student is no longer a student.

It especially doesn't help that PRO comes with the refutation that peer pressure to perform also harms the student socially in a CON world... Under a different resolution CON could win with this argument, but in this particular debate PRO takes the cake.