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Segregation in schools

Segregation in schools are many types and depends on different conditions. Segregation generally is taken to mean the practice of forcibly separating people based upon their race or ethnicity. However under modern civil rights law force doesn't have anything to do with the legal definition of segregation. So, we can take segregation as both way – positive or negative. Positive means segregation by age, gender(boys and girl), religion, like or dislike of people, it is also depends on interest of people. Segregation could be done in shape of club, trust, off course school. Negative means the racial segregation or segregation in name of religion(which creates problem and difference). Segeration in school could be many types. Some of them are below :-

AGE SEGREGATION WITHIN SCHOOLS

In our present system; age defines a child's learning and results in age-segregation. Since "neurological structure is sculpted by experience" (Education As the Cultivation of Intelligence, Mr. Michael Martinez, ) adaptability would suggest we adopt aptitude and capacity subject level classes, learning and teaching. “Each person has the right to learn and to be provided challenges for learning at the most appropriate level where growth proceeds most effectively. Our political and social system is based on democratic principles. The school as an extension of those principles must provide an equal educational opportunity for all children to develop to their fullest potential. This [also] means allowing gifted students the opportunity to learn at their level of development. For truly equal opportunity, a variety of learning experiences must be available at many levels.”

GENDER SEGREGATION WITHIN SCHOOLS

Gender Segregation in schools means separate school for girls from the boys. There are many factors influencing success. For instance, whenever the distraction of boys is taken away from girls or vice versa, students no longer have to worry about how they dress, who they have to impress or who their friends are. Instead, they are able to concentrate more on academics. The recent trend is single-sex education in public schools. After nearly a 40-year absence, people are starting to realize that the education system that was in place for the last part of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century was successful. Also, in single sex classrooms teachers can focus on the environment in which the particular gender learns better. Dr. Leonard Sax, a Maryland physician and psychologist, found in a study that girls tend to learn in a quiet and slower paced environment and liked to be called by their first names whereas boys like things energetic, fast paced and prefer to be called by their last names. This is a nationwide trend re-appearing with the number of single-sex public schools increasing from four to 140 over the last eight years, according to Sax. And the trend keeps growing. CNN reported at least 10 single-sex schools were to open this fall in Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and South Carolina. The Gender Segregated schools trend is seen in other countries such as England, Australia and Jamaica.