Day-to-day interaction with individuals of the opposite sex in the teenage years is essential for the development of social skills and healthy heterosexual relationships.

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Pro: While boys and girls are formally segregated for 8 hours a day, the effects of this segregation can cascade into complete and total segregation. For example: Children who attend single-sex schools will go to movies etc. with their peers. Given children make most of their friends at school, it is unsurprising that many know none of the opposite gender at all.

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Pro: Single sex education could make it harder for girls and boys to relate to one another in a work or social environment later in life.

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Pro: Seeing a school as a small version of society (which includes men and women). It would be beneficial for children to attend mixed schools.

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Pro: Schools are meant to prepare students for the workplace and that is generally not gender-segregated.

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Pro: Single-sex education supports social mobility between genders

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Con: Boys and girls have plenty of time outside of school to interact