Co-education

                                     Co-education

For years, a question many educators, parents, and researchers have been asking is whether or not it is academically beneficial to teach to boys and girls together or separately at school. Some argue that coeducation allows males and females of all ages to become more prepared for real-world situations, whereas a student that is only familiar with a single-sex setting could be less prepared, nervous, or uneasy. However, at certain ages, students may be more distracted by the opposite sex in a coeducational setting. This distraction may affect how often a student is willing to raise his or her hand in class and urge students to be less focused on the lesson.

 According to advocates of coeducation, girls without boy classmates have social issues that may impact adolescent development. Girls may have lower, more traditional aspirations and may choose occupations that tend to be more traditional in nature as opposed to science-related occupations. They argue that the absence of the opposite sex creates an unrealistic environment not duplicated in the real world. In classes that are separated by gender, male and female students work and learn on the same level as their peers, the stereotypical mentality of the teacher is removed, and girls are likely to have more confidence in the classroom than they would in a coeducational class.

Co-education is necessary today. The reasons are many. Boys and girls think differently. Most boys think logically and very often girls are emotional by nature. With regular interaction between boys and girls, a better understanding is created. Co-education also generates healthy competition between them and there will always be better appreciation of each others' perspectives, strength and weaknesses. Co-education also helps create mutual respect and encourages diversity in thought.I would also like to make it a point that co-education system helps the students, especially girls to compete in the field of SPORTS. It would also help them to break their mental barriers and compete in a competitive world of "SPORTS"!
I too feel that co-education system plays an important role in the development of a country. As many people said, this system greatly enhances the student's confidence levels, maturity etc.

On the other hand, when you send your child to a co-educational school, your child will have exposure to the opposite sex from the outset. As a result, your child will not only feel more comfortable in the company of the opposite sex, but will also be able to handle advances better. 

A girl studying in a co-educational school may have ten boys in her class that are interested in going out with her, and may ignore them all, preferring to just hang out with friends. On the other hand, a girl in an all-girl's school will meet fewer boys, and fewer still will show an interest in her. Such interest, since it isn't something run-of-the-mill for her, may cause her to get carried away. However, she may still have a lot of exposure to the other sex, thanks to siblings. In this case, she may be more balanced.

India is a developing country it cannot afford to keep separate schools for boys and girls. In one way co-education increases the level of maturity in the students. And even its helps to know the students how to interact with the others. It even reduces the levels of shyness and their hesitation. In today's competitive world girls and boys need to work together, so it helps a lot. It even stops the discrimination acts among girls. It increases a student's level of thinking. Through the co-education students can develop communication skills, confidence levels, thinking capability, mutual understanding etc. Most importantly, co-education gives confidence to girls as they are treated as 'equals'.

Now a days co-education is considered important because it:

1)Helps in better understanding of the two different genders,
2)Reduce shyness,
3)Helps to be perfect and to have good dressing manners,
4)Helps in the reduction of usage of abusable language,
5)Helps in the maturation of mind.
6)Co-education maintains discipline & sense of etiquette's in the institution.
7)o-education improves communication skill & enlarges the height of thinking.