Indiana School Imposes Extreme Sex-Segregation

In class on Wednesday, the group I was apart of had to critically think about the possible outcomes and effects of how a high school in Indiana is separating males and females in hope that being unsocial with the opposite sex will increase the students performance. It is understandable that the Indiana school board would want to try to boost the students grades, but this seems a little over-the-top.

My group and I came up with a few points to embrace our standpoint that this rule that girls could not interact with boys and vise versa on school grounds. One of the first ideas over this situation we came up with is that if boys and girls do not learn how to interact with one another at an early age, then they would more likely have a hard time interacting and socializing with each other after graduating from high school. The idea for girls and boys not having the ability to talk to each other without feeling discomfort could really hurt then in the long run with dating and jobs.

Another point we had was that we felt that this should be more of a parents choice. If the parents of these students preferred their child to be surrounded by only the same gender, then they would be more likely to place their child in an all boys or all girls school. In my opinion, public school is a co-ed school and therefore it should not be split between genders.

I realize that the school board is trying to help their students develop better grades, but there seem to be more bad effects of this circumstance than there are good. I think the school board needs to realize learning school material has a lot more to do with how they are taught and how hard they try rather than who they are around.