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considers the idea of single-sex schools and argues that they should be supported, not banned. Discussion The idea that single-sex schools provide a better education than coeducational institutions is not
new, and is in fact the idea behind such establishments as the service academies and the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). Among the arguments used to support same-sex schools are that
when they are not distracted by the opposite sex, students of both sexes "become more academically involved, interact with faculty frequently, show larger increases in intellectual self-esteem and are more
satisfied with practically all aspects of college experience" than their counterparts in coeducational schools (Hurd). When students attend an all-male college, it is more likely that they "will carry out
career plans in law, business and college teaching"; and that they will start these careers with better salaries than those from co-ed colleges (Hurd). Likewise, women who go to all-female
schools increase their changes of obtaining "positions of leadership" and of completing their degrees, and then going on to take advanced degrees (Hurd). The attitude that Hurd describes is fairly
simple: that if girls and boys dont want to go to same-sex schools, or if the schools fail, the educators themselves will abandon them (Hurd). "But short of that, let
the educators and the parents and the students decide, and leave the lawyers and judges out of it" (Hurd). However, its not that simple, and there are objections to
single-sex schools that we need to consider. When the Supreme Court struck down segregation based on race as unconstitutional, it did so based in part on the inherent unfairness of
the so-called "separate but equal" idea. It proved that facilities that were separate were most assuredly not equal, and that blacks put into these schools were getting an inferior education;
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