Sexually segregated schools
Name(s):
Student segregation
Single sex schools
Claim
It is artificial to isolate boys and girls from one another. They fail to learn ways of fully interacting together, intellectually as well as socially. Sexually segregated schools produce unbalanced young people, experienced in the ways of their own sex but naive in, and untempered by, the ways of the other.
Counter-claim
Poor and minority girls in inner cities are especially at risk from problems such as teenage pregnancy, dropping out of school, sexual abuse, depression, drug abuse and gang violence. Many girls in co-ed schools absorb attitudes of passivity, choicelessness and submission to men, that separate schools could change by supporting girls' efforts to choose their own lives and by promoting leadership for women.
Aggravates
Lesbianism [in 1 loop]
Male domination [in 2 loops]
Confusion over sex roles [in 2 loops]
Gender identity disorders [in 3 loops]
Gender inequality in intelligence [in 1 loop]
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(D) Detailed problems