Hello my name is Hannah and I am the first speaker for the affirmative team, today we are debating the

topic. We the affirmative team define the topic as all schools year 7-12 should be multisex. Today I will be talking to you about how co-education makes students more confident with the opposite sex and how it helps them attain great life skills, when it comes to interacting with the opposite sex. I will also be talking to you about how single sex schools are an archaic and out-dated concept. Our second speaker

Now to my first argument. A co-educational environment in senior school education is more reflective of society. In todays world it is impossible to survive and be successful without successfully communicated with people of both genders. In the real world students will have to interact with members of the opposite sex everyday and it is unrealistic and unproductive to separate them from each other. Research has shown that students educated in a samesex school environment are less likely to confidently state their beliefs and have more trouble forming friendships with the opposite sex. Where we would we be if men and women were better and more confident in interacting with each other? In a more productive environment based on gender equality. Co-ed school provide a channel of communication that will not only benefit those students, but increase productivity when that generation finishes schooling. Students who are educated at single sex school have great trouble socializing, working with and relating to the opposite sex. Coeducational school create better mannered students who are more sensitive to issues associated with the opposite gender and who are able to communicate ideas they have fluently in a public forum of both sexes. Co-ed schools are much better at simulating real word situations and problems that do arrive between the sexes and prepares students more for university and later in life. My second point is that the idea of single sex schools is out-dated. The very concept was born in a time when females were unequal to males and therefore denied the same education. But dont we know live in a time of supposed gender equality? Surely this continuation of separating boys and girls in schools is a step backward. There has been research that shows males and females are more likely to except gender stereotypes when they attend same sex schools. So students future job prospects are some what limited by the fact they are in a predominantly single sex environment, and they will become accustomed to that environment and be lost when it comes time to function amongst both genders. And you may argue that boys and girls have different learning styles but doesnt every single student? And teachers find a way to accommodate those learning styles with in one classroom, so therefore cant both genders be accommodated

in one equal classroom? The notion that females and males need to be separated to achieve a better education is ridiculous and just another way of trying to separate females from males, it is an old-fashioned concept that is no longer relevant or socially acceptable in todays society. In conclusion, Co-education helps students interact better between the sexes and build better relationships and communication channels, and single sex schooling is an old fashioned method of school that promotes gender inequality.