Simon Bourke: My co-ed school experience wasn’t calming or encouraging, it was downright terrifying
About one-third of Irish teens are in single-sex second-level schools. Stock image
Their naivete is understandable. Having never experienced long, lazy afternoons in a room charged with tension, frustration, and confusion, it’s natural they would point to the benefits of mixed socialisation, argue that life in a mixed-school prepares one better for the future.
Obviously, they’re wrong. Nothing can prepare you for the future. And nothing, not even a group project with the most handsome boy/beautiful girl in the class, can ever hope to unravel the mystery of the opposite sex.
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