Note: This for the interest of girls, not boys. Mainly because I am a girl, and I don't think this topic matter much to guys. But feel free to read it, whatever the gender :)
Each generation is different from the other. This generation for example is more intelligent and open minded than the last one. But with it's open mindedness comes it's vulgarity too, mind you. This generation (Well, most of it) doesn't realize what is right and what is wrong in accordance to Islam. In other words, we have stopped following Islam, the way it deserves to be followed, and I am not only talking about you guys, but me, myself, too.
The problem of this generation that I'd like to discuss is the problem of being too frank and too free, sometimes desperate too, when meeting or seeing the opposite sex, when it is wrong to do so in Islam! From this arises the problem that whether these people, who cannot control themselves in front of the opposite sex, should be entered in co education or not. After all, they are doing wrong and should be stopped! If I had not experienced both co and girls education, I would have opted for the opposite one. Truth to be told, it doesn't really matter if they are put in a girls school or a coed one, because it doesn't stop them from doing what is wrong.
The conclusion I came to, while experiencing girls education, was that girls are too desperate and eager to meet with the guys. They have been kept aloof from them and even if a sir or just one guy comes, many of the girls either crush on him or flirt with him. This aloofness creates the desperation which it should not. But unfortunately it does. Moreover, they start meeting boys outside of school. Before continuing with my topic, I would like to ask those girls who act like wild animals in front of the opposite sex some questions. Why act like that around them when they:
1.Are not aliens from another planet.
2.Do not have three legs.
3.Or three set of ears, for that matter.
4.Are human beings too.
5.Are not people who should be goggled at.
I would understand the goggling if a male alien with three eyes and four arms would be standing in front of us, but I don't understand why stare at guys, when they have the same number of eyes, legs, hands and on, when they have the same tones of skin, when they have the same body organs? There is difference I get that. And it's natural to be curious at this age. But come on, people. Staring at guys and meeting with them behind your parents will hurt you and only you. Not only in the present but in the hereafter too.
Back to the topic though. Coed education. The above was what and how the girls act in a girls education. But there are girls in the coed education too, who act cheaply. They flirt with guys and date them and what not. And then there are other problems in coed too, such a r*pe, and there is the danger of being bullied to anyone who does not interact with the opposite sex, who follows Islam. Then there is the problem of guarding your eyes. To stop interacting with them. To control yourself. It is not allowed in Islam to even look at the opposite sex. If you do it one time by mistake, then fine. But the second time is a sin. Don't you think it would be a big test for you in the coed education? What with other problems, this would be one of the biggest. You would be defying Islam, because you and i both know, self control is a very difficult task.
My experience, though, in the coed education has been good. I was very young at that time. We were kids actually. And we were innocent. But trust me, the class I left to go to the girls education is still that innocent. They talk, of course, but there is no dirty talk, no flirting, no dating or whatever. I know this, because my best friend still studies there, and there has been no change that has effected them. They are the same as before. The guys respect the girls with hijab. They respect the privacy of the girls, and in return the girls respect their privacy and try not to cross the limits. (Mashallah)
I have come to this conclusion that it does not matter, where we go, either coed, or purely girls, because the bad has spread everywhere. We cannot remain aloof from society as a whole, so we must try to differentiate between good and bad. We must try to draw a line, and try not to cross it. We must listen to Islam and to our parents (if they are saying the right thing). Because, In the end, it does not matter whether it is a coed or a girls education. The tarbiyat (Upbringing) of that child, the sense of right and wrong and the eiman (believe of Allah) in his heart matters. It is his self control and fear of Allah that matters. We cannot dodge the bad, so we must try not to let it influence us.
((Another conclusion might be this: To go in a girls education and remain aloof from the opposite sex. Then go in coed when matured enough to do so. But I think that there is a slight loophole in this conclusion. After all, curiosity gets the better of everyone.))