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Single-sex schools provide a better learning environment.
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boys and girls would not be distracted by one another they also have smaller class size, more engaged parents, and better trained teachers they have more students on academic tracks, more homework, and higher achievement test scores they are usually private, have higher academic standards, and are more selective in their student body they may benefit those most likely to lose out in the typical school environment: high-achieving girls and low-achieving boys activities like choir, drama, or debating are more open to the sex that is likely to avoid them in mixed-sex settings students in all-girls schools speak out in class and participate more	co-educated girls are more self-reliant and more willing to gain approval for their work rather than their ability to manipulate/ work others they perpetuate and reproduce male domination of educational institutions teachers in all-girls schools have been found to talk down to students, encourage them in hard work rather than correct work, and create dependency Boys and girls may fail to adapt themselves to their social life in the future. The segregation may lead to more prejudice compared to the coed school. they insult both women and men

they perpetuate and reproduce male domination of educational institutions
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	It varies from person to person.

teachers in all-girls schools have been found to talk down to students, encourage them in hard work rather than correct work, and create dependency
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	single-sex classrooms report less gender stereotyping and fewer explicit sexual harassment incidents

Boys and girls may fail to adapt themselves to their social life in the future.
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Single-sex schools can not provide a better social environment.

boys and girls would not be distracted by one another
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the absence of girls in the classroom would improve the peer environment for boys by providing less distraction	the presence of girls in the classroom would improve the peer environment for boys

the presence of girls in the classroom would improve the peer environment for boys
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male peer groups are one of the major factors that keep boys from succeeding in academic endeavors

male peer groups are one of the major factors that keep boys from succeeding in academic endeavors
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	male peer group values hinder academic progress as a response to girls in the classroom

they also have smaller class size, more engaged parents, and better trained teachers
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	only because single-sex schools are often private, fee-paying schools

they are usually private, have higher academic standards, and are more selective in their student body
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	private schools always provide a better learning environment, or no-one will pay for their child to go there any school, including mixed gender schools, can be better if they are more selective in their student body

any school, including mixed gender schools, can be better if they are more selective in their student body
For	Against
	selectivity is usually for academic success, which makes the school better, but this is not evidence that gender-selectivity does the same

students in all-girls schools speak out in class and participate more
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the more men in a class, the less women enter into sustained discussion, and men become more active as their numbers increase they have more influence over classroom dynamics in physics classes, students in all-girls classes understand the material better, work together more often, and are not afraid to ask questions

they insult both women and men
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they imply that women can only do well with special treatment in a special school

they imply that women can only do well with special treatment in a special school
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	they also imply that boys benefit from special treatment