Question

Your school is considering participating in a pilot program that would separate boys and girls. Write a letter to your principal in which you argue whether or not single-sex classrooms and schools are beneficial to students. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the “Coed vs. Same Sex Classrooms and Schools” passage set.

Answer 1

Dear director.

I recently heard about the project to separate our classrooms by generos, where we would have some classrooms for boys and some classrooms just for girls. While reading the project and debating with some friends, I was wondering what the benefit of this action would be. I concluded that the losses are greater than the benefits, in my opinion and I decided to write to you, to state my opinions with the greatest possible respect, your final decision on this matter.

I believe that mixed classrooms, with boys and girls, are important to develop our social capacity. When we finish high school, we will enter university and, later, the job market, where we will have to get in touch with all types of people, in order to be successful. This contact with different people and of different genres from ours should be encouraged in high school, since it is the greatest basis of social life that we have at this age.

Based on that, I would like to ask you to reconsider this project, if possible.

Thank you for your attention.

Kind regards.

M.J.