Hannah - "Mixed schools, definitely, because some girls get on better with boys (like me) and some boys get on better with girls! Also my friend who goes to all-girls is really shy around boys as are her friends whereas me and my friends who go to mixed are fine around them. Also some boys (sorry if I offend anyone) who go to boys only schools treat girls like object and don't respect them. Also, private schools tend to be sexist with 'girly sports' or 'manly sports' which is wrong."

Roxie - "Personally, I say co-ed simply because part of the school experience is social... and to be able to mix with just one sex is fine, but what happens when you're in a work environment of mixed gender?

I'm also not entirely taken by the grammar school thing... I'm at a public school, however I am in top sets of their "grammar school standard band" and could have attended any local grammar school should I have wished. What annoys me is the way all these grammar schools come out with brilliant results and get so much praise for it, and such results are then compared to public school results making the grammar school results seem even better. Excellent results from grammar schools should be expected, and nothing less than excellent results should be accepted from grammar schools because at the end of the day...grammar schools are supposed to have the most intelligent 20% (or whatever) of children in the local area. Public schools aren't."

Becky - "I think that you need to learn to mix with other sexes as part of your education. I think it's almost a "life skill" that everyone should learn to treat others with respect, etc, so I think mixed schools are best, but I'm not saying single sex schools are wrong."

Steve - "I think all boys schools work better for boys than co-ed ones, but looking at my lady friends I don't know if I can say the same for girls."

Helen - "Research shows that boys do better in co-ed, whereas girls are better off in single-sex schools.

I go to an all girls school. Its a very good school (100% GCSE pass rate) but it's so boring! its tiny, and in the middle of nowhere.... not great for the social life! I had the chance to go to the top Norwich Boys' school (they take girls in the 6th form), but I stayed where I am because I don't think I'd work so well with the distractions..."

Lea - "I'm for it. I think that it gives you the chance to know how to behave around the opposite sex, plus I don't get along too well with other girls. On the other hand, it stops distraction I suppose..."

Emma - "I go to a mixed comprehensive and although maybe you do get more distracted I think it's better to mix. I have a friend who goes to an all girls school and when boys take the joke with her she has no idea how to take it. I know how to react and make come backs to boys but she feels daunted by them and nervous. I'm not particularly distracted by boys messing about because I think girls can be just the same, sometimes worse."

Alfie - "I am in a mixed school and I am ok!"

Tammi - "Mixed but I can only say that because I've only ever been to mixed schools!"

Katie - "I would say mixed but after today when my friend spent... ohh virtually the whole day at school in the toilets crying over a lad (he goes to our school), there would be less distractions as she wouldn't have spent the day crying if he didn't go to our school, as he had been saying things about her in school with his mates."

Charlie - "Well, I go to a normal, mixed, comprehensive school. After my Key Stage 2 I was offered a full scholarship to a Girl's Independent school, and to a Girl's Catholic school. I turned down both. And I'm gland that I did. Why? Because at a mixed school we have a range of abilities and the mix of sexes. I work very well with a lot of the boys in my class, and in subjects like History and English it's sometimes useful to have opinions from both sexes, and ideas can be bounced off each other.

My friend moved to an all girl's school, and I daresay that she is enjoying it, but like me she's clever, and not in the least bit interested in boyfriends at the moment. Sometimes I wish I'd moved to, but then I look at my class, and I wonder what I would have missed if I didn't go to my school. My life would be totally different. To begin with, I may never have got into cross-country running.

However, I can clearly see the other side, having nearly been on it myself. For example, I think one of the girls in my class is pregnant, and she's spent the last week in tears after splitting up with her boyfriend. Sometimes I think it would be a lot easier for her if she could have some space, and for him to - as everyone seems to be slagging off either one or the other of them.

I don't think either is better or worse than another. I think it's good for sexes to mix, but I think if you have any sort of life out of school, and if you are sensible then you will mix anyway. I think it depends on the type of person you are. I think a lot of girls think it would be a distraction to work with boys, where as some find in invaluable."

Bex - "I reckon that if people want a distraction then they will find one no matter what school they are in."