ABSTRACT
The ex-pupils reported that the attitude of girls in girls' schools towards boys was 'less pleasant' than the attitude of girls in co-educational schools, with regard to both junior and senior pupils. The male ex-pupils from the 'Both schools' survey considered the attitude towards girls to be more pleasant in their co-educational schools because of a good family relationship there, while the number of judgments describing the atmosphere as a little unpleasant or worse were more numerous about the boys' schools. The series of supplementary questions about the attitude of pupils towards the opposite sex, which included the one about 'boy/girl crazy', consistently produced the same results—that the attitude was more normal and healthier in the co-educational schools. However, a trend was observed for pupils in single-sex schools to use the extremes of the scale slightly more often than those in co-educational schools.
