In the past, men and women should be separated in order to keep the person's sense of value and conservative sexual belief. Especially, women could not be intimate with men because of their virtuous life. However, as world become more open, freely, and equable, everyone live with each other no matter what their gender is. As thinking about this current flow, I believe that boys and girls should not attend separate schools since they should understand the value of their opposite sex, and prepare real lives during school years.
Most of all, students do not have to attend separate school of same sex because they should learn about the different characteristics of opposite sex during school years. As teenagers grow to be adults, they also grow the curiosity of the other sex because of developing sexual hormones and change of their body. Especially, during middle school and high school years, students want to know about sexual relationship and they might have sexual prejudice. This is why schools should teach about sexual education for all of students. If students do not receive appropriate education about sex, they can cause serious physical and mental problems such as acting like pornography stars, raping, or using other misunderstood knowledge in the future. Good education and having natural time with opposite friends can help stopping those possible problems. To demonstrate, according to the Ministry of Korea in 2006, it was reported that coeducational high schools caused lower sexual problems than ones that included separated gender. This shows that coeducational schools are perfect place to understand the difference of their bodies and minds more naturally. Also, it reduced the possibilities of serious sexual problems for students. Therefore, school system plays a significant role in developing intimacy to opposite sex.
Furthermore, attending coeducational schools can help them be suitable to enter the real world. It is obvious that there are half of men and half of women in the world. However, if students spend teenage years that curiosity about sex is increasing in the separate school, they cannot adjust the society and cooperate with other gender person after graduation. Students should learn about opposite sex efficiently for preparing to meet many different kinds of people in the world. Making opposite gender friends will be the basis of understanding human being. For example, Erick, one of my best friends, spent his teenage years attending male school. He always knew about talking with boys and enjoying male activities such as sports, driving cars, and violent video games. However, after graduating, he could not make any girl friends during university years because he could not understand their behaviors and sensitive feelings. As a result, he could not cooperate with girl friends in class time, and it affected him to bring about serious gender prejudice even after entering company. He failed to build social network naturally and it made him hard to work productively. It shows that school years are critical to learn about fitting in the world successfully by spending time with different friends.
To sum up, I believe that attending coeducational school is more beneficial for students since it allows student to grasp the different characteristics of opposite gender, and prepare to be suitable to enter the social life after graduation. As society grows more rapid, people should understand each other. With joining, people can experience more diverse things in the world and it helps them broaden their perspectives. |