Daffodil Senior Secondary school,
10 Adenuga Street,
Magodo,
14th April, 2016

The Chairman,
Parent-Teacher Association.
Daffodil Senior Secondary School.
Magodo.

Dear Sir,
PROPOSED TRANSFORMATION OF OUR SCHOOL INTO A SINGLE-SEX SCHOOL
The students received the proposal to change our school into a single-sex school with a lot of misgivings. As the senior prefect, I have been inundated with displeasure from students against such plans. i would want to disagree with the decision in support of the misgivings expressed by the majority of my schoolmates. First and foremost, co-education promotes a healthy academic rivalry among male and female students. I am of the opinion that male and female students should be given equal opportunity to excel in a school such as ours. As you know Sir, there has been a great healthy rivalry among us irrespective of sex. We have had several cases of boys and girls showing brilliance in various subjects and female students have always worked hard to prove that whatever their male colleagues can do, they can do also. In this way. our school has always been a platform for a progressive and healthy academic and sporting rivalries among male and female students. This healthy rivalry has been the hallmark of the high academic records that our school is known for. This will certainly be destroyed if the school becomes a single-sex school.
Our school, as it is now. encourages healthy relationship that is suppose to exist between male and female students as a precondition for a peaceful co-existence in marriage in future. When boys and girls attend the same school, they learn about the psyche of one another. They will be able to understand the motives behind every behavior and change of attitude. Over the years. male and female students will gather numerous experiences which will enable them to live together in unity and harmony with the opposite sex even after leaving school. Sir. changing our school into a single-sex school will not expose the students to this type of experiences which may later jeopardize their marriage in future.
I am not aware of what informs the decision of the parent-teacher association to change our school into a single-sex school but I know that the greatest fear of proponents of single-sex schools is immorality, which they believe is common in mixed schools. Immorality has not been a common thing among us. There have been no cases of rampant immorality as the school breeds good and brilliant students, both male and female. Changing the school into a single-sex school can even lead torn breeding homosexuality and lesbianism in the school as cases of such immorality is rife in single-sex schools.
Sir, co-education is one of the ways through which we can ensure peaceful co-existence of adult males and females in marriage. Co-educational schools like ours afford us the opportunity to study together as well as knowing one another better. Changing the school into a single-sex school can jeopardize this, so it is not acceptable to us.
I would appreciate it if you could use your good offices to influence the parent-teacher association to maintain the statusquo.
Thank you Sir,
Yours Faithfully
Ndukwe Joshua