kind of educational establishments for children of all ages. It helps them develop better social skills, learning skills, and learn a great deal of responsibility. Coed schools give you more opportunities for advancement in your career.

The positives of being in a coed school are that you get hands-on training on how to handle your responsibilities, and being introduced to different genders and personalities. It helps you to learn punctuality, to budget, to balance priorities and options, and also to problem solve. It also gives you more experience with the opposite gender and to find out views from a male’s perspective. Being in a coed school helps students with their social skills for the future. These social skills are expanded when you create friendships and different type of relationships with people from the same and also the opposite gender.

Coed schools also are better for learning sex education because it helps both genders see different points of view from each other and have a better understanding of where they are coming from. There is a more in-depth conversation between both genders about personal hygiene and hormones.

Some students and teachers also feel that there is more violence in coed schools than single sex ones because they think that girls and guys tend to fight over the opposite sex more. However, many teachers and students say that there is the same amount of violence in a same sex school as in a coed school. They feel that it depends on the student’s home life. If a child is grown up with violence, then they bring that with them to school to solve their problems. If a child is taught that violence is never the answer, then they will always find peaceful ways to deal with their issues inside and outside of the school.

Parents mostly send their child to a coed public school first because they like the idea of free education and because it will develop their social skills more to prepare them for the outside world. Parents feel that for their child to prepare for the outside world, they need to experience different personalities in school first. For example, your boss is the opposite sex and comes off a bit obnoxious. But you graduated from a quiet single sex high school and have only dealt with kind peers; thus, you wouldn’t know how to handle your boss’s personality and would be offended by the way he responds to you. This example shows that one of the benefits of a coed school is to prepare you to engage with different people and their personalities. Parents want their child to have a strong personality and a tough sense of confidence to help them towards their independence.

I feel that coed schools are advanced in helping you both with your academics and also your social skills when you graduate. It helps you develop your personality and your core values. Coed schools also prepare you for the real world and problem solving. It can open your eyes to different views and perspectives of the opposite sex along with the same sex. There are more opportunities gained from going to a coed school, and that is why it is parents’ and students’ first choice.