Which is better, same-sex or mixed school?

[jnj0910]

hi,


just to share...
i was from co-ed pri and sec school, and didn't find the boys distracting.
In fact, I found most of them rather annoying cos they always stink after soccer, which they play during recess and before/after school, and PE.
And so, they were no distraction to me in studies :rotflmao:

And when I went to JC, the\"monks\"and \"nuns\"were like, so shy around the other gender when there mixed social activities like mass social dance, etc, and i was like \" what's the big deal\" and just went around my schoolwork and activies.

Anyway, I think BGR is safer than GGR , which i hear were rather common from my JC/uni frens from top girls' sec schools.

But I agree that statistics show that top performers through the decades have been from single-sex schools, so that is something to ponder upon.

Haven't decided for my kids yet, but for practical reasons, for primary school, as long as it's a good school, fairly convenient and not too distant to travel, doesn't matter co-ed or single-sex
Sec school will depend on their results and preferences

[jtoh]

These days being in a same sex school doesn’t stop the students from having BGRs. They meet each other at tuition centres, batch lunches, group outings, and of course Facebook.

[Ahboymum]

I prefer Co-Ed schools all the way.


My sis-in-law told me that research showed that girls perform better in an all-girls school but boys perform better in a co-ed school. True?

[kittensmittens]

My girl is going to Primary 1 next year. I will most probably be putting her into a convent school.

[SunBrazen]

I opened this thread with a laugh. 10 years in an all boys school. Pri 1 to Sec 4. Everyone mostly Chinese as my school is a SAP school. Racial Discrimination hah. XD

[nemofc]

I am due to register my gal for P1 and I am hesitate to send her to convent after hearing the pros and cons of it… Advise pls

[zbear]

Both my kids come from a co-ed Primary School n now in co-ed Secondary School. I am all for mixed, its better for both genders to mix when they are young.


I am from a Convent school n I don’t like it.

[nemofc]

Why you don’t like? Mind sharing?

[larkspur]

I went to co ed school in primary and girls’ school in sec.i remembered in my sec one classmate was so infatuated with a girl prefect that she always sat in a few benches away and looked at the prefect with starry eyes. We can see prefect being very uncomfortable from the way she shifted her posture. We always tease our classmate at her infatuation. I always tot this is just teenager puppy like but when we graduated I heard from classmates that she pator with girls and never outgrow the fact she likes girls.

[larkspur]

jnj0910:

hi,


just to share...

And when I went to JC, the\"monks\"and \"nuns\"were like, so shy around the other gender when there mixed social activities like mass social dance, etc, and i was like \" what's the big deal\" and just went

Same experience here except mine in secondary school. All teachers are ladies too so once the principle gets a male young teacher to teach maths all the girls purposely walk past the classroom to look at the teacher and u can see them flipping their hair as they walked past.some followed vthe teacher to toilet. The poor male teacher was so terrorised that within one week he asked for transfer out to other school. Only those of us from coed primary cannot understand y they acted that way until sec 4 then we knew y