Yang Wu

ESL 33A
10/7/2015

Separating the Sexes, Just for the Tough Years

The middle school years (grade 6,7, and 8 ) are known to be the tough years.
These are the years when the different rates of girls and boys physical, emotional,
and cognitive development are most noticeable. Girls develop ahead of boys in every
boys in every area, and both suffer. Educators debate whether the separation of boys
and girls into single-sex classes were against the law in public school until several
years ago, but now they have become more common. Although some parents,
educators, and civil liberties groups continue to oppose single-sex classes, there is
some evidence that separating boys and girls in middle school produces positive
results.
First, mix-sex classes can earn self confidence easily, boys usually good at math and
physics, so in the math and physics classes they will be very confident in classes. On
the anther hand, girls usually good at Language class like English, and girls usually
good at thinking, they have better creative thinking, they can earn self confidence in
these ways. Single-sex classes have to face this kind of problem, they have the same
skill and same mind, so they will get sad easily. Self confident can help people study
well, not that easy to get a fix mind, not give up easily.
Then, girls and boys in the same classes can help them study well. Most of boys
want show the positive side to girls, they will work hard to get girls attention. In P.E
class, boys always try their best to get girls attention. Same as girls, they always make
up before go to school, they try to be beautiful to get boys attention. Sometimes
people love to teach heterosexual to improve, and they may get improve from
teaching others.
Finally, interaction is very important to peoples life, many people become
homosexual because they spent all the time with same sex people, people may get
seek because that. Some people become very shy when they fave to a heterosexual,
some people can not find a paternal. When people in a mix-sex classes, that will help
them protect how to communicate with a heterosexual, with they work or find a
boyfriend/girlfriend, that will help them a lot.
For all those reasons, the arguments against same-sex class are not valid. On the
contrary, many people say that same sex classes provide a better learning
environment. Boys and girls pay less attention to each other and more attention on

their school work. Therefore, in my opinion, the policy of allowing single sex classes
is not as good as a mix classes room, so it should be continued and encouraged.