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Year after year, studies in Australia have proven that girls perform better in all-girls schools and boys perform better in co-educational schools. There are a number of reasons offered to explain these repeated results but the purpose of this article is to argue the case whether children learn better in single-sex schools based on the results themselves rather than the reasons for the results.

So the answer to the debate where Australian single-sex schools are concerned, lies in the results. Girls in single-sex schools learn better and boys do not as they seem to fair better in co-education schools. It is really that simple.

However, we are only debating academic learning here and not social and life learning. If we bring these other two aspects of learning into the argument, then the debate becomes more complex and open to further scrutiny.

I have two daughters who attend an all-girls school. The number one reason why I chose to send my daughters to a single-sex school was based on the repeated results of the yearly studies. My view is that so long as the school my daughters attend provides sufficient social interaction with brother schools and opportunities for social and life learning, then combined with a good academic education and parental guidance, I will have given them best start to their adult lives.

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