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I had always been a student of single-sex schools. In my primary education, middle, high school, intermediateand even now in my Bachelors, I never had the misfortune, as I'd call it, to study with the fair sex. This doesn't mean that I have zero interaction with the members of opposite gender or no communication skills when it comes to girls? In fact, I've always left a good impression over the females I've met over my life span.

In a single-sex school, a child gets the opportunity to fully open up and there are no inhibitions. You can play around without the fear of any girl noticing you, laugh out loud and play any sort of pranks with your colleagues without looking here and there to find out about the presence of a girl.
Opposite always attract each other. So no matter how one favours the co-education, there is no denial to the fact that sexual problems arise from such setups. Children get involved in wrongdoings which in turn emerge as future problems in their marital as well as social lives. Teenage pregnancies and abortions are one of the several branches of this menace.
Most people assert that studying in co-educational institute grants their child the interaction between the two genders and hence they learn to behave in different conditions and it naturally results in a better groomed personality of the child. This scribe differs in this aspect as well. I, myself, have never been to a co-ed. Moreover, I've been in a traditional public school for half a decade, which encompassed most of my teen years. I see and feel that I haven't wasted my time while studying over there. My friends who studied in hi-fi, co-ed institutes where there was no restriction the way both sexes interacted, they do not know how to behave in public especially with the opposite gender and elders. And, they are even dumbstruck when it comes to addressing a gathering of, say 70 people. This also shatters the orthodox belief that child gains confidence only when allowed to study in co-ed.
The phenomenon of studying of both sexes together fails to get unnoticed on account of time wastage on students part. Kids tend to remain in college long after school, spend more time on their friends place, remain aloof from their own families and are always seen with a tiny screen of cell phone in front of their faces texting hysterically to their friends of opposite gender. This whole concept has ruined the family life of the youth and has freed them from the hold of their parents, detracting them from the main course.
The life of schooling is the time of "make or break" of a child, may it be the career, social skills, grooming or upbringing. So it's better for a child to concentrate on the studies alone. If anyone is caught in a wrong ditch and still that chap tries to emerge as triumphant, it'll all be in vain. It is the role of the parents to seek the most appropriate type of institute for their child. I've seen many refined kids in co-eds and have seen many very talented kids go down the drain in a single-sex school just because they were caught up in a bad company. So they ended up behind the bars. Having said all this, I still rest my case.

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