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The question:

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? 

Boys and girls should be educated in separate classrooms using different teaching techniques. 

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Sample response:

As a student educated in a gender-mixed system, I believe that a system in which boys and girls are
educated separately would better serve children. Boys and girls not only learn differently, they are also much
affected by each other's presence in the classroom, further inhibiting their learning. 

I believe that boys and girls generally learn differently. For example, I think that girls are much more able to
sit through a lecture and listen quietly. As a child, I remember well the boys who were repeatedly scolded for
being too fidgety and not listening to the teacher. Why was it that this scolding was so much more common
with boys than with girls? I think that that particular teaching style is more suited to girls than boys. 

As teenagers, I believe that boys and girls become negatively affected by sharing classrooms. I remember
not wanting to ask or answer questions for fear of looking too ignorant, or more often too smart, in front of
the boys. A smart girl was never deemed as attractive as a stupid girl, or so it seemed. 

I believe that if boys and girls were educated separately, they would do better in school. Teaching styles
could be designed specifically to gender, and boys and girls would not be negatively affected by each
other's presence in the classroom.