ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns changes in discipline and pupil-teacher relationships in schools which were re-organised from single-sex to co-educational and vice versa. Evidence was obtained from ex-pupils of amalgamated schools about the effect of the re-organisation on pupil-teacher relationships, first by direct questions and secondly by a comparison of the estimates given by such pupils on topics like 'the friendliness of teachers' with those given by pupils from normal co-educational schools. One factor which comes into the picture is the re-organisation of single-sex grammar schools into not a co-educational grammar school but a co-educational comprehensive school. Evidence from the comments shows that at least one such occurrence is included in the data, but there may have been others. On balance this factor had a tendency to produce comments which were less favourable to co-education because of its association with the change to comprehensive education.
