When it comes to same-sex schools, many people have mixed feelings about them. Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing for them to have single-sex schools. When you think of single-sex schools, the first thing that comes to mind may be "I would never survive in an all-boys and all-girls school," depending on your age. But there are as many advantages, if not more, than disadvantages. When it comes to girls in a single-sex school, their learning experiences and outcomes may be different from boys. There are many statistics to suggest that all boys or girls schools are better for students, as opposed to a traditional co-educational school. But many other statistics may say otherwise. One reason people might say that all male or female schools are better is because there are no distractions from the opposite sex, nor any pressure to maintain an expected appearance or gaze towards the male/female eye and because this is one less big distraction, the student will be more focused than they would be in an integrated school. A disadvantage is that in the future of the student's life, when they have to enter the real world, they may not know how to interact socially with the opposite sex. But for many people (and mine), academics are more important than someone's social life. Your social life won't take you far in life, but knowledge is eternal. Men and women work at different paces and in different ways. Girls seem to learn about the nature of the beast if they attended single-sex schools, while boys who learned on their own seem to find girls more confusing. (Garner, 25). Boys learn better when they are around girls and they actually learn to get along better. (Garner, 38).Garner experienced a...... middle of paper...... y. Beginning around the 1900s, education in America was largely contained within a single-sex setting. This structure was the result of societal views, expectations, and opportunities for each gender. Typically, men required more formal education to facilitate their expected worldly occupations, and women received much less formal education, rich in practical skills necessary for their expected domestic lives. Men and women require such different educational experiences and subjects that they were educated separately. (Cohen) In colonial times, boys and girls were educated separately. But by the mid-19th century, funding for education became a public expense and boys and girls began to share classes. But they still sat in separate sections. Gender diversity has only been a norm in the United States since the very late aughts 1800..