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/^t/Despite of its advantages, single-sex schools are being strongly criticized. Many people disapprove of them claiming that private education is unfair. The schools are said to have bad influence on the psychological development of pupils. Students who happened to attend to such a school admit that the atmosphere there is terrible: there's no room for playing pranks on teachers, leave alone any scandalous goings-on and truancy. Instead of this one can find boredom, excessive ambition and gossip. Everybody learns madly in order to show that one is better than the others. Students do everything to be different from the rest but in reality they take on all the features and habits of the class. There is also another disadvantage of single-sex schools or class. I mean, the inability of its students to get along well with the persons of the opposite sex. A girl who has graduated from such a school can hardly make friends with the people of opposite sex, she cannot get on with them or even she does not know how to behave in their presence. There are opinions among people that students who go to public schools are snobs and that they think they are better than anyone else. They are also said they have no idea how anyone lives in the real world, they are arrogant with no brains or talent.