Problems with Co-Education Single-sex education cannot guarantee more confident females whatsoever. It may in some cases help female students to be more confident in certain subjects as mentioned in the article but when we see these females in the broader context i.e. in practical life they are less confident in dealing with their male counterparts which is one thing which should be there after years of education.
I myself have been a student of a coed institute and have experienced quite a frank environment till my A levels. Students were free to interact with each other both inside the academic circle and outside it. We used to treat our male and female friends alike. However things have changed now that I have stepped into the university life. Here we have people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds. There is a blend of a multitude of people from various schools of thought. Now I am clearly able to separate students who are from single-sex institutes from those of coed ones. Be it be a male or a female student, if he/she is from one of those single-sex places they’ll be treating people from opposite sex as beings of a different world! I’ve seen girls going all ga-ga over guys and vice versa. On the other hand ppl from coed places are normally well behaved and they don’t tend to be partial towards anyone. This is however, just an example of one case, there maybe and are exceptions. I am not by any means implying that single-sex education is not practical, what I mean to say is that it is not the only determinant of the success in female or male students which the writer seems to think.
As for moral problems a coed institution creates, it must be noted that schools are only one of the myriads of places where such things happen and that too, to some extent and not always. We were a very close lot in my school and I know guys used to smoke and the majority dated but that is by no means unusual. Go to any girls college and u will find girls coming out all dressed up and guys waiting outside welcoming them with colgate smiles. A very well known girls college has a number of its girl students who are very fond of smoking and using other drugs. This can be found in coed schools as well, and shows that moral degradation has to do nothing with single-sex or coed schools.