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/^t/For many years, single-sex schools have been extremely popular almost all over the world, excluding the post-communist countries. In the United Kingdom there are many top public schools which are considered to be very elite. The word "public" means exactly the opposite of what it says, because most children cannot go to this type of school. The fees for those schools are so high that only very few people can afford to send their children there. Although private education of this kind exists on the large scale now, a struggle for coeducational schools has been taken up.