CO-EDUCATION in School

Importance of School Education

School education lays the foundation stone in building the personality of a person.
The school education in India today has roughly three divisions:

1. The Primary education,
2. The Secondary education and
3. The Higher Secondary education.

The primary education is virtually, a disorganized affair, each school pursuing its own method. The syllabus of secondary schools are state-managed. It has common curricula having a rationale in its syllabus. The Higher Secondary functions at three levels: the State-level, the CBSE and the ICSE. The texts are framed by scholarly experts selected by the NCERT or State text book committees. Thus we have struck off the older pattern of our time that has become jaded today and are obsolete.
Primary education helps in the development of analytical skills, character and overall personality in a child.

 

A strong reason for co-education is that separating children for a number of years means they will not be mixing and learning about each other.' - Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. 

At KRfB we embrace the importance of co-education at Junior School level. Both boys and girls, at KRfB, have an opportunity to grow and develop through their co-educational experience and at fRffB we structure our learning and environment to ensure that students get the most out of education and prepare them well for their secondary education. 

It is clear that boys benefit enormously by learning in a co-educational environment. They often learn skills of participating better in class discussions through their interaction with girls. Girls learn to take risks with their problem-solving through interaction with boys. In the classroom we plan educational opportunities that meet the different ability levels and learning styles, regardless of gender. 

We also offer many opportunities for children to interact with the same gender to encourage or discourage particular befhaviours and by creating norms that guide children’s behavifofffur. Popular father and son events include adventure afternoons, sport and various outdoor education activities. Similfafrly, our mother and daughter events include a special Mother’s Day Morning Tea, classroom work and various outdoor education activities.

We believe we offer a unique set of learning opportunities and experiences for boys that are not always provided in a boys' school. They are experiences that are also provided for our girls but benefit both boys and girls simply by having both genders participating. It is significant to reflect on the high  achievement of KfRB boys and their participation and achievement in all areas of school life. The positive feedback we receive from the secondary school our boys join in Year 7 and from the boys in career mode is always exceptional.