what are some pros and cons of same gender classes?
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Pro:\nIn a single-sex class, students aren't trying to impress member of the opposite sex, so they can focus more on learning instead of trying to look cool.\n\nCon:\nIn the "real world" people have to work with the opposite gender all the time, so they should get that practice when they are in school.\n\nPersonally, I think same-sex classes are a great idea in middle school and high school, when kids are teenagers and showing off for your peers becomes more important than being smart and learning.  And many studies have been done showing that single-sex education works - kids learn better.  Perhaps not every class needs to be single-sex.
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If we had true equality for gender, then there would be fashion freedom which means no discrimination on how someone dresses. Some people will cross dress for fun, some because they are more comfortable dressing in a fashion that suits their personal feeling. If people were less bigoted , there would be no issue as to how someone presents themselves, provided they are not threating or intimidating
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Yes, scatter graphs, but why not try one for males, one for females, and one for all. Investigate if scatter graphs for different groups of people have different lines of best fit. Good luck with your coursework.
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I hope you don't mind, I saw your other question and also posted this response, so, this is cross posting with extra added ^_~\n\nYes, the institution of education should include proper information about human bodies, ALL human bodies.  I don't know about lower level education, except in biology, we learn that snails and worms are hermaphrodites, there are over 36,000 sexes of mushrooms..etc but intersexes are not "hermaphrodites" and mushrooms certainly aren't human ^_~ As far as post secondary education, I did attend one Sociology class that talked about intersexes briefly. As for resistance, I am in Student Govt. and recently proposed an event for International Intersex Solidarity Day (nov. th) before the Executive Counsil and was shot down faster than a nuclear missile heading to WA DC. because they didn't know what i was talking about. They suggested i hand it off to the rainbow club. I was livid!\n\nIntersexes are either genital shapes and sizes not congruent with current dominant standards of genital shape and size preferences.\n\nIntersexes are also people whose chromosome patterns might not be xx or xy (such as xxy or xxxy, or xxxo, or xo, or mosaic meaning a mix of chromosome patters across different cells)\n\nIntersexes are also a mix of both of the above two options.\n\nThe thing about labeling someone intersex, is that when people from the medical community are deciding whether or not to label someone intersex, they often fluctuate as there is not set standard of criterion across the board.\n\nSome use size standards, such as a phallus that is larger than .9cm is too large for a female, therefore if the doctor feels that the [infant] should have been female according to the doctors preferences looking at genitals and /or chromosomes etc the doctor might trim the phallus or remove it (social construction of the female sex)\n\nAnd if the phallus is smaller than 2.5cm and/or the doctor feels that the [infant] would be unable to stand while urinating as an adult, on an [infant] the doctor feels should have been male according to the doctors preferences looking at genitals and/or chromosomes etc, the doctor might choose to do genital reconstructions and possibly hormone replacement therapy to construct the [infant] as a female regardless of chromosomes etc.\n\nSex is on a spectrum, you see, where the categories of male and female are not static, meaning, not absolute categories, but rather made up of cultural preferences, they are invented labels put on varrying places on the sex spectrum in order to validate a cultures claims of categories of sex, to perpetuate the segregation of human beings.\n\nIntersexes are often marginalized or stigmatized by societies in order to preserve the western binary gender and sex systems which declare that there are only two sexes, and only two corresponding genders, that both are biological, and that the placement of certain sex and gender labels on human bodies mean something, signify something, often socially and religeously. For this reason, many intersexes are subjected to cosmetic surgery, isolation, shame, discrimination, invalidation, and less access to vital medical care and information about their bodies. And often when they are given medical care or information, it is in such a way that highlights cultural preferences/standards for "male" and "female" and downplays the validity of a natural human body which does not conform to these cultural preferences.
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Pros:\n\nYou discover that all humans, regardless of race, have the same wants and fears in life, to love and be love in return, success, integrity, acceptance and to be appreciated.  You learn although we have cultrual differences we are the same.  You soon forget when looking at your mate that they are of a different skin tone.  You just see the person you love.
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Not necessarily - unless she is at some GREAT disadvantage by not being let in (i.e. a scholarship is only available at THAT school, say). \n\nThere is nothing inherently wrong with single-sex learning institutions. The public schools are figuring that out now, and experimenting with single-sex classrooms.
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I'm not sure exactly what you mean ... But I'll give you what I think you mean ...\n\nIt is popular among educators to talk about single-gender classrooms. There are some that believe that if boys and girls take separate classes, they can learn more. So, they study the same subjects, but just from different teachers or at different times. All the boys in one class, the girls in another.
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no you don't have to be the same gender, you can choose opposite sex as your avatar.
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My daughter is nearly 9 and distressed that boys and girls get changed for PE in the class room together.  I spoke to the school and they informed me they have to as no changing facilities in the school.\nThe school do not think it is an issue but some children do!
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I guess you are asking if it is better to be a guy or a gal.\nBeing a guy has so many more advantages. However, the way it was first designed, the guy and gal fit each other and together they achieved. They both needed the strengths of each other. Now marriages are mostly miserable, by a plethora of accounts. Men think women are from Mars and who knows where women think men are from. Women understand women; men understand men. I saw a mug in Reno a while back. It said, "If you think for one minute that you understand women, you have the time just about right."
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Uniforms are the answer. If everyone is wearing basically the same clothing it leaves little room for distraction in the classroom. I teach at a Parochial school where uniforms are required. when we have dress=down days (kids choose what to wear) they act totally different.\nUniforms are the answer!
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I guess it depends what the class is about. If it's some whacko new age type thing that's one thing, but if it's a legit "Dr. Phil" type thing, it shouldn't be a problem.  Everyone has some issues, even if they think they've got it together. Maybe she knows her issues but you don't.
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It si proven that boys get lost in Co-ed system because they learn at a much slower rate than girls - plus there is less distractions at single sex schools...believe me I should have pushed my parents more into sending me to an all boys school...Its is much much better.
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i think there is advantage and disadvantage in both gender so there is no like or dislike factor its neutral
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The pros of a private college is name recognition. People tend to think that private colleges = better education. Class size is usually small as well.\n\nThe cons? Chances are you can get an equally effective education at a public university. The expenses are unreal, and unnecessary. I paid a little over $2,100 in tuition and fees this semester. Tuition and fees *only* for private colleges runs approximately 3 times that.
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Not sure if they're identical and/or same gender, but making sure to support the expression and development of their own personalities/identities to emerge, giving positive reinforcement for their strengths, and letting them know that they each have their own strengths, like everyone. Make sure to spend about equal time with each and have personal time with each as well. Good luck!
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Gender equality is, well, all genders, full, trans or not, being treated with equal respect. Fashion freedom is everyone being allowed to dress as they like, such as open crossdressing for both men and women. I beleive both are equally important.