Collin Bolles

Ms. Keane

World Literature and Composition

7 May 2014

The Fight for Education!

The education system has become a cesspool of swarming political agendas attaching

themselves on our posterity. After theses agenda have attached themselves slowly but surely and

have grow into brainwashed zombies that can’t think for themselves. Its seems logical that if

want to change society you must start with the youth and to start with the youth you must go to

the education system. This is exactly what has happened. There are two mighty ways ; co-

education and same-sex education. both very useful in indoctrination ,but co-education has been

overpowering same-sex education for a long time. The basis of this these two system to rule

together must be social issues, place, and time.

It seems that the education system has become just one big political sling shot for parents

to get their thoughts out. “Parents rarely mentioned that they chose to attend the single-gender

academies because of their interest in empowerment or gender equity for their young boys and

girls, except for some parents of white girls in a suburban district”.(2) These social issues have

slowly wiggled their way into the education system by people who attempt to make schools

about changing social issues and less of the education part. There seems to be a layer of thick

mud over these peoples eyes. I say they have been focusing less on educating and more on

feminist and “progressive” values. While education should benefit women and men equally that

doesn't necessary mean that both men and women should be educated the same.

The civil rights movement impacted education in good ways and more negative

ways.“These developments(In coeducation) were abetted by the civil rights movement, which

not only raised public awareness of racial inequities in education, but also helped to foster

feminism”.(3)The fad that began in the 50s and is still prominent today is coeducation. This

coeducation has its roots in communist values and has fostered feminism which has hurt

mankind and womankind as a whole. The way that this has happened has been from the social

issues of the civil rights movements that have been corrected in a overcompensation. If you

have a pair of socks with a hole you can “Fix” them them by putting dipping them in cement.

You have fixed the hole but now you have a whole new set of problems that you have to deal

with than before. The same is with our education system. our society has fixed some social

issues ,but has overcompensated adding a new set of problems.

“These programs foster stereotypes and hurt kids who don't fit the idea of how a

stereotypical boy or girl is supposed to learn and behave.”(1) This overcompensation consists of

many factors the main factor is forcing men and women to stereotypes of sameness which hurts

the learning process. They do this by teach men and women the same. Both systems of education

should be used to teach. Some classes should geared towards men and some towards women.

Coeducation and samesex Education both seem to work that is why both should be used in

moderation working together to achieve the goal of education , and not a indoctrination of stupid

political agendas.

“Coeducation was consistent with radical conceptions of equality, and it was an efficient

means of rapidly boosting student enrollments, helping the newly formed Soviet Union to meet

its growing requirements for trained workers in a variety of fields”.(2) Communism with its

radical ideas of equality needed same-sex education to make men and women have the same

role. While it did serve them well it is not going to fare the same with capitalist societies which

are more diverse and individual than ever!

“About 400 co-ed public schools in the U.S. offer some single-gender classes, according

to the National Association for Single-Sex Public Education (NASSPE). That's up from about 10

schools in 2002.”(Should boys and girls be taught separately). America is on the right track in

terms of educational diversity as a whole. The next step is not just having coeducation and

samesex education but haveing schools the combine both.

The people who oppose same-sex education are usually affluent and in better-educated

communities themselves which they try to turn the gun on the people who support it. Datnow

said, “Opponents of single-gender schools, however, claim single-sex schools are accessible only

to affluent and better-educated communities.” (Is Single Gender Schooling Viable in the

Public Sector) What they need to enact to benefit all of society is make all schools have a

mix between same-sexeducation and co-education.

They way that this would work would be complex but it would work efficiently. Each

school would have gender segregated classes ,but they would join when the would work in

groups or lunch. This way you would have less distractions during class ,but have the benefits of

working together like in the real world. Speaking on the sidelines of the workshop in Africa ,

Nekwaya said, “the environment girls face is much more sexualised today than it was in their

parents' days.” (Call for single sex schools) The sexulized distractions are the same ,but have

become more detrimental to the classroom as time has increased. This secualised environment

has been changed over time by culture. Culture may have great benefits ,but it has problems ,and

some of which affected the education system dramatically.

With culture come new problem and with new problems comes solutions ,but the

solution is not always correct .This would be the case for the push for co-education in the 50s

and 60s where they made coeducation the only option for all public schoolers. An education

system that has only coeducation will not fit the need of real human beings who are each

unique and not the same. Co-Education seems to be a one size fits all. Rury said, in an

interview about co-education “finally, a revolution in sexual mores came to characterize the

decades during the second half of the century, becoming widely influential in the 1960s; this

cultural change reduced popular resistance to coeducation on moral and religious grounds”.

(RURY, JOHN L.)This cultural change has been detrimental to education by removing Same-

Sex education from schools. As time passed and the nation came to their senses they

eventually realized that Same-Sex education was crucial for education as a whole. Although

Same-Sex education was abolished in the past The Future for Same-Sex education is getting

brighter as more laws are past in favor for diverse educational opportunities for students.

In the beginning of the 2000s Barely no districts had same-sex schools. In fact there was

according to many head people of education “only one districts out of six had single gender

academies.”( Lea Hubbard). On January, 8 2002, President George Bush signed the no child

left behind act which progress the fight for diverse education by allowing districts to try new

innovations in education. These innovative programs help to fund same-sex programs that

would gain ground in america. This would be the biggest help for Same-Sex education to

catch up with co-education.

Same-Sex education seemed to been increasing since the 2000s and i believe that it will

grow even more as we progress in time. I must warn you that what has been passed can be

unpassed so we must always fight for same-sex education to keep alive and well. Same-Sex

mixed with Co-education is the best way to have education and its only a matter of time

before people catch on to it. This are both great system and i believe that they should be

treated with much care. The Education system must keep not self-centered ,but focused on the

children themselves.

Works Cited

"Call for Single Sex Schools." Africa News Service 3 Oct. 2012. Global Issues In Context. Web. 25

Mar. 2014.

Datnow, Amanda, Lea Hubbard, and Elisabeth Woody. "Is Single Gender Schooling Viable in

the

Public Sector?"

RURY, JOHN L. "Coeducation and Same-Sex Schooling." Encyclopedia of Children and

Childhood in History and Society. Ed. Paula S. Fass. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan

Reference USA, 2004. 212-215. Global Issues In Context. Web. 25 Mar. 2014.

"Should boys and girls be taught separately? Single-sex schools have been around forever. now,

more

and more co-ed schools have introduced single-sex classes." Junior Scholastic/Current

Events 5 Nov. 2012: 15+.Global Issues In Context. Web. 25 Mar. 2014.