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Collin Bolles

Ms. Keane
World Literature and Composition
7 May 2014

The Fight for Education!


The education system has become a cesspool of swarming political agendas attaching
themselves on our posterity. After theses agenda have attached themselves slowly but surely and
have grow into brainwashed zombies that cant think for themselves. Its seems logical that if
want to change society you must start with the youth and to start with the youth you must go to
the education system. This is exactly what has happened. There are two mighty ways ; coeducation and same-sex education. both very useful in indoctrination ,but co-education has been
overpowering same-sex education for a long time. The basis of this these two system to rule
together must be social issues, place, and time.
It seems that the education system has become just one big political sling shot for parents
to get their thoughts out. Parents rarely mentioned that they chose to attend the single-gender
academies because of their interest in empowerment or gender equity for their young boys and
girls, except for some parents of white girls in a suburban district.(2) These social issues have
slowly wiggled their way into the education system by people who attempt to make schools
about changing social issues and less of the education part. There seems to be a layer of thick
mud over these peoples eyes. I say they have been focusing less on educating and more on
feminist and progressive values. While education should benefit women and men equally that
doesn't necessary mean that both men and women should be educated the same.

The civil rights movement impacted education in good ways and more negative
ways.These developments(In coeducation) were abetted by the civil rights movement, which
not only raised public awareness of racial inequities in education, but also helped to foster
feminism.(3)The fad that began in the 50s and is still prominent today is coeducation. This
coeducation has its roots in communist values and has fostered feminism which has hurt
mankind and womankind as a whole. The way that this has happened has been from the social
issues of the civil rights movements that have been corrected in a overcompensation. If you
have a pair of socks with a hole you can Fix them them by putting dipping them in cement.
You have fixed the hole but now you have a whole new set of problems that you have to deal
with than before. The same is with our education system. our society has fixed some social
issues ,but has overcompensated adding a new set of problems.
These programs foster stereotypes and hurt kids who don't fit the idea of how a
stereotypical boy or girl is supposed to learn and behave.(1) This overcompensation consists of
many factors the main factor is forcing men and women to stereotypes of sameness which hurts
the learning process. They do this by teach men and women the same. Both systems of education
should be used to teach. Some classes should geared towards men and some towards women.
Coeducation and samesex Education both seem to work that is why both should be used in
moderation working together to achieve the goal of education , and not a indoctrination of stupid
political agendas.
Coeducation was consistent with radical conceptions of equality, and it was an efficient
means of rapidly boosting student enrollments, helping the newly formed Soviet Union to meet
its growing requirements for trained workers in a variety of fields.(2) Communism with its
radical ideas of equality needed same-sex education to make men and women have the same

role. While it did serve them well it is not going to fare the same with capitalist societies which
are more diverse and individual than ever!

About 400 co-ed public schools in the U.S. offer some single-gender classes, according
to the National Association for Single-Sex Public Education (NASSPE). That's up from about 10
schools in 2002.(Should boys and girls be taught separately). America is on the right track in
terms of educational diversity as a whole. The next step is not just having coeducation and
samesex education but haveing schools the combine both.
The people who oppose same-sex education are usually affluent and in better-educated
communities themselves which they try to turn the gun on the people who support it. Datnow
said, Opponents of single-gender schools, however, claim single-sex schools are accessible only
to affluent and better-educated communities. (Is Single Gender Schooling Viable in the
Public Sector) What they need to enact to benefit all of society is make all schools have a
mix between same-sexeducation and co-education.
They way that this would work would be complex but it would work efficiently. Each
school would have gender segregated classes ,but they would join when the would work in
groups or lunch. This way you would have less distractions during class ,but have the benefits of
working together like in the real world. Speaking on the sidelines of the workshop in Africa ,
Nekwaya said, the environment girls face is much more sexualised today than it was in their
parents' days. (Call for single sex schools) The sexulized distractions are the same ,but have
become more detrimental to the classroom as time has increased. This secualised environment
has been changed over time by culture. Culture may have great benefits ,but it has problems ,and
some of which affected the education system dramatically.

With culture come new problem and with new problems comes solutions ,but the
solution is not always correct .This would be the case for the push for co-education in the 50s
and 60s where they made coeducation the only option for all public schoolers. An education
system that has only coeducation will not fit the need of real human beings who are each
unique and not the same. Co-Education seems to be a one size fits all. Rury said, in an
interview about co-education finally, a revolution in sexual mores came to characterize the
decades during the second half of the century, becoming widely influential in the 1960s; this
cultural change reduced popular resistance to coeducation on moral and religious grounds.
(RURY, JOHN L.)This cultural change has been detrimental to education by removing SameSex education from schools. As time passed and the nation came to their senses they
eventually realized that Same-Sex education was crucial for education as a whole. Although
Same-Sex education was abolished in the past The Future for Same-Sex education is getting
brighter as more laws are past in favor for diverse educational opportunities for students.
In the beginning of the 2000s Barely no districts had same-sex schools. In fact there was
according to many head people of education only one districts out of six had single gender
academies.( Lea Hubbard). On January, 8 2002, President George Bush signed the no child
left behind act which progress the fight for diverse education by allowing districts to try new
innovations in education. These innovative programs help to fund same-sex programs that
would gain ground in america. This would be the biggest help for Same-Sex education to
catch up with co-education.
Same-Sex education seemed to been increasing since the 2000s and i believe that it will
grow even more as we progress in time. I must warn you that what has been passed can be
unpassed so we must always fight for same-sex education to keep alive and well. Same-Sex

mixed with Co-education is the best way to have education and its only a matter of time
before people catch on to it. This are both great system and i believe that they should be
treated with much care. The Education system must keep not self-centered ,but focused on the
children themselves.

Works Cited
"Call for Single Sex Schools." Africa News Service 3 Oct. 2012. Global Issues In Context. Web. 25

Mar. 2014.
Datnow, Amanda, Lea Hubbard, and Elisabeth Woody. "Is Single Gender Schooling Viable in
the
Public Sector?"
RURY, JOHN L. "Coeducation and Same-Sex Schooling." Encyclopedia of Children and
Childhood in History and Society. Ed. Paula S. Fass. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan
Reference USA, 2004. 212-215. Global Issues In Context. Web. 25 Mar. 2014.
"Should boys and girls be taught separately? Single-sex schools have been around forever. now,
more
and more co-ed schools have introduced single-sex classes." Junior Scholastic/Current
Events 5 Nov. 2012: 15+.Global Issues In Context. Web. 25 Mar. 2014.

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