A coeducational environment for your child reflects the reality that men and women must interact and work together. Exposure to learning side-by-side with the opposite sex will make students more comfortable with each other and allow them to easily make friends.
“It prepares you for the future, because you’re going to have to work with both males and females,” says Giuliana Guarna, a student at MPS Etobicoke school in Toronto, Ontario.
Coed schools reflect the world at large and encourage greater respect between girls and boys. It also prepares students for working in a post secondary setting.
“At some point, likely in university, boys and girls will return to a coed environment and they need to know how to get along and work together,” says Paula Bourne, a Senior Research Associate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. |
