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GROUP 10

INTRODUCTION

Source: www.independent.co.uk/news/education/educationnews/why-single-sex-schools-are-bad-for-your-health-if-youre-aboy-1831636.html

 SINGLE-SEX SCHOOLS ARE SCHOOLS THAT, LIKE THEIR NAME SUGGESTS, ONLY ADMIT STUDENTS FROM A
SINGLE SEX TO THEIR SCHOOLS.

THESE SCHOOLS ARE SIMILAR, BUT NOT THE SAME AS BOARDING SCHOOLS, SINCE THEY DO NOT OFFER
LODGING TO THEIR STUDENTS.

SINGLE-SEX SCHOOLS ARE COMMON IN THE UK AND IN USA, BUT THEY ARE ALSO PRESENT IN THE
PHILIPPINES

THE ISSUE?
THERE IS A MYTH CIRCULATING THAT PEOPLE IN SINGLE-SEX SCHOOLS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE NONHETEROSEXUAL AS OPPOSED TO THOSE WHO STUDY IN CO-ED SCHOOLS.

WHEN 20 PEOPLE WERE ASKED ABOUT THIS, 13 PEOPLE RESPONDED THAT THEY BELIEVE THIS, WHILE 7
PEOPLE RESPONDED THAT THEY DONT

-WHEN ASKED FOR A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION, MOST OF THEM ARGUED THAT IT IS BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE
THAT IF A PERSON IS IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE MOST OF THE PEOPLE ARE IN THEIR SAME GENDER,
THEY TEND TO ASSOCIATE ROMANTIC FEELINGS WITH THOSE PEOPLE INSTEAD

IS THIS TRUE???

 THE ANSWER IS:

NO, NOT REALLY.

-WHEN 17 STUDENTS FROM DIFFERENT SAME-SEX SCHOOLS WERE ASKED ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THEYRE
HETEROSEXUAL, 14 OF THEM SAID THAT THEY ARE HETEROSEXUAL, WHILE ONLY 3 SAID THAT THEY ARE NOT
- SOME OF THOSE WHO SAID THAT THEY ARENT HETEROSEXUAL SAID THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO BECOME
WHO THEY ARE SAID THAT IT WAS BECAUSE MOST OF THEIR FRIENDS ARE COMFORTABLE WITH IT, OR
BECAUSE GAYS/LESBIANS/BISEXUALS ARE COMMON IN THEIR CAMPUS. THIS IS NOT THE CASE WITH ALL
SAME-SEX SCHOOL CAMPUSES

RESPONSES
DO YOU THINK BEING IN AN ALL-BOYS/GIRLS SCHOOL HAS AN EFFECT TO THE SEXUALITY OF A PERSON?
- YES, YOUR OPTIONS ARE LIMITED. YOU TEND TO SETTLE FOR WHATS THERE.
- IT DEPENDS IF HE OR SHE ALREADY HAS A BACKGROUND [IN BEING LESBIAN/GAY], BUT BASED ON
EXPERIENCE, THERES NONE.
- YES, BECAUSE OF LIMITED OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH, NO OR LITTLE INTERACTION WITH PEOPLE OF
THE
OPPOSITE SEX.

- YES, THEY TEND TO PUT A LABEL ON YOU THERE, YOU GET COMPARED, SO SOMETIMES PEOPLE JUST
CONFORM
TO THAT; LIMITED INTERACTION WITH PEOPLE OF THE OPPOSITE SEX (DEPENDING ON THE RULES OF THE
SCHOOL)
-NO, BECAUSE WE STILL GET TO GO OUT AND MEET PEOPLE WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX.
-NO, NOT REALLY. IT STILL DEPENDS ON THEIR UPBRINGINGS AND NEIGHBORHOOD.
-MAYBE, IT STILL DEPENDS ON THE PERSON. THERES A CHANCE NA MADEVELOP BECAUSE YOU ARE
-ALWAYS TOGETHER NGA.
- MAYBE? GUYS IN MY SCHOOL, EVEN STRAIGHT GUYS, COULD GET PRETTY TOUCHY LIKE JOKINGLY
KAPAG PURO GUYS LANG AROUND. PERO SYEMPRE, PAG MAY BABAE AROUND, DI NILA GAGAWIN
YUNG MGA GANUN. DI KO LANG SURE KUNG GANUN DIN SA MGA CO-ED NA SCHOOL

WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF BEING IN AN ALL-BOYS/GIRLS

SCHOOL WHEN IT COMES TO FINDING YOUR TRUE SELF?

YOU KNOW MORE ABOUT THE DIFFERENT OPINIONS AND PERSPECTIVE OF PEOPLE WITH THE SAME SEX
AS YOU

YOU GET TO SEE ALL THE SIDES THERE IS TO THAT SEX [MALE/FEMALE], LIKE HOW THEY MANAGE AND
INTERACT.

YOU GET TO KNOW YOURSELF MORE, YOU GAIN MORE CONNECTIONS WITH PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX (FRIENDS)
THAT SERVE AS YOUR SUPPORT SYSTEM

YOU GET TO EVALUATE YOURSELF DEEPER AND KNOW YOUR DISADVANTAGES.

I GUESS YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY MORE PEOPLE ALSO QUESTIONING THEIR SEXUALITY PAG ALL
BOYS/GIRLS

 ATTENDING IN AN ALL GUYS/GIRLS SCHOOL SOMEHOW GIVES YOU SOME "BREATHING SPACE". WHAT I
MEAN IS THAT IT GIVES YOU AN ORIENTATION OF THE OPPOSITE GENDER, MEANING YOU THERE IS STILL A
LOT OF SPACE IN YOUR "SELF" THAT YOU STILL HAVE THAT SOMETHING THAT WILL MAKE YOU TRUST OR
HATE THE OPPOSITE GENDER. MAY CHANCE KA PA PARA, SABI MO NGA, "MAKAPAG-EXPLORE", TO KNOW
MORE, TO LEARN MORE ABOUT YOUR COMMUNITY.

MALALAMAN MO TALAGA KUNG ANO KA BA TALAGA AS A WOMAN SINCE PURO BABAE ANG KASAMA
MO, REGARDLESS KUNG ANONG SEXUAL ORIENTATION NILA, AND SECONDLY, DAHIL SA ALL-GRILS SCHOOL
AKO GALING NA MAY MGA HOMO/BI, MAS MADALI SAKIN TUMANGGAP NG MGA HOMO/BI SA
SOCIETY NATIN NGAYON KASI DI BA MERONG MGA TAO NA AGAINST SA MGA HOMO/BI/TRANS AT MGA
TAONG MAHIRAP SILANG TANGGAPIN.

DISADVANTAGES
YOU HAVE LIMITED ENVIRONMENT AND POINT OF VIEW; YOU TEND TO BE BIASED BASED ON YOUR
ENVIRONMENT.

YOU ARE NOT USED TO SPEAKING UP IN FRONT OF GIRLS SO YOUR RELA?ONSHIP ON BOTH SEXES WONT
BE THAT OKAY.

ONE GENERAL DISADVANTAGE IS THAT ALL THOSE YEARS, THESE GUYS/GIRLS HAVE BONDED WITH THE
SAME SEX, AND SOMEHOW THIS HAS MADE THEM SHY. I MEAN SOME OF US MIGHT HAVE
EXPERIENCED CULTURE SHOCK OF COURSE, BUT WE DO OUR BEST TO COPE WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD.

 MAHIHIRAPAN KANG MAKIPAGSOCIALIZE SA OPPOSITE SEX KASI NAEXPOSE KA LANG SA

ENVIRONMENT NA PURO BABAE AND ONCE NA LUMABAS KA SA ENVIRONMENT NA ALL-GIRLS/BOYS(E.G.
GRUMADUATE KA NG HS), MACUCULTURE SHOCK KA KASI IBA YUNG CULTURE NG REAL LIFE SA CULTURE
NOONG HIGH SCHOOL.

DO YOU KNOW PEOPLE WHO CHANGED SEXUAL ORIENTATION BEFORE AND/OR AFTER THEY WENT OUT OF AN
ALL-BOYS/GIRLS SCHOOL?

YES-8
NO-9

CONCLUSION
ALTHOUGH THERES SOME CORRELATION ON A PERSONS SEXUALITY AND WHETHER OR NOT THEY ATTENDED
A SINGLE-SEX SCHOOL, PEOPLE WHO ATTEND THOSE SCHOOLS ARE NOT ACTUALLY MORE PRONE TO BEING
AN LGBT THAN THOSE WHO ARE IN CO-ED SCHOOLS.
THE ENVIRONMENT WHEREIN THE PERSON LIVES IN AND THE MENTALITY OF THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM/HER
ABOUT GENDER IDENTITY IS MORE OF A FACTOR TO A PERSONS EVENTUAL SEXUALITY, REGARDLESS OF
HIS/HER SCHOOL