Gender-separated classrooms
Gender Separation in the Classroom A commonly rising issue in The United States is how to create a better educational foundation for the future generations. One viable option for a drastic education overhaul is to provide a single-gender environment in the classrooms of our public schools. By merely separating the genders by classrooms, the students will have less distractions from the opposite sex, better test scores due to bettering retention of the material, and a stronger focus for their future. The combination of these ideas would lead to a stronger generation, causing a strengthened workforce.
For the wealthier parents who care about their child’s education, private schools with the option for single-sex education, are a viable, however expensive, option. For many Americans, however, paying tuition for their child’s high school diploma does not seem realistic. The gap between the wealthy Americans and the average-income Americans is too drastic. Why should the wealthy have options for a youth’s education that is not an option for everyone? The idea that gender separated classrooms was once out of reach for nearly everyone in this country. Now, thanks to the National Association for Single Sex Public Education, providing a unique educational environment is not out of reach. The NASSPE, founded in March of 2002, provides a strength against groups that try to bully public school districts into removing the gender separated classrooms. The American Civil Liberties Union is one of those groups. In 2011, the ACLU was dispersing harassing letters to public schools offering single-sex classrooms. These letters threatened legal action if the schools did not disband the idea of single-sex classrooms (NASSPE: Schools). Many of the targeted schools the ACLU attacked were from a smaller school district without the means to financially standup for their ideas. Many of the schools disbanded the single-sex classrooms, not because they agreed with the ACLU, but because
For the wealthier parents who care about their child’s education, private schools with the option for single-sex education, are a viable, however expensive, option. For many Americans, however, paying tuition for their child’s high school diploma does not seem realistic. The gap between the wealthy Americans and the average-income Americans is too drastic. Why should the wealthy have options for a youth’s education that is not an option for everyone? The idea that gender separated classrooms was once out of reach for nearly everyone in this country. Now, thanks to the National Association for Single Sex Public Education, providing a unique educational environment is not out of reach. The NASSPE, founded in March of 2002, provides a strength against groups that try to bully public school districts into removing the gender separated classrooms. The American Civil Liberties Union is one of those groups. In 2011, the ACLU was dispersing harassing letters to public schools offering single-sex classrooms. These letters threatened legal action if the schools did not disband the idea of single-sex classrooms (NASSPE: Schools). Many of the targeted schools the ACLU attacked were from a smaller school district without the means to financially standup for their ideas. Many of the schools disbanded the single-sex classrooms, not because they agreed with the ACLU, but because
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