No Cooties in the Classroom

Asia DukesNo Cooties in the Classroom

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No Cooties in the ClassroomEducation is the institution responsible for the formal transmission of knowledge. The educational system has been designed to meet multiple needs, which includes training and knowledge. The classroom is where societies futures are developed, with that said one would believe that policies would be arranged to create the optimum classroom environment. One of the many ideas that are being implemented in different areas is single-sex schools. Until the late 19th century, education in the United States was single-sex education (Anfara 2008.) Single-sex schools reduces distractions in the classroom, permits students to expand their interests and allocates educators to use pedagogies that are created to benefit specifically male or female students. It is no secret that at young ages boys and girls do not tolerate one another. They play separately and often pick on one other by saying things such as boys or girls have cooties. As a child grows into a teenager this is clearly no longer the case as hormones arise. However the one thing a child at five and a teenager at sixteen have in common is that the opposite gender is a distraction during class; whether it be a small girl in kindergarten having her ponytail pulled by the boy who sits behind her or a young man in high school receiving a secret admirer note from a girl three rows over. Single-sex schools eliminate these distractions and provide each and every student a better chance at staying focus on the information being taught and the one delivering it.