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However, being in a single-gender school deprives adolescents the ability to socialize with the opposite gender. In other words, if those adolescents attend single-gender schools, they will barely get to socialize with the opposite gender in comparison to those who attend to coeducational schools. In addition, this issue can cause problems to the adolescents and affect the Thai society as a whole. Those problems are such as the lack of interaction with others, being close-minded and the lack of self-presentation. More importantly, those people who are affected by these problems could possibly be playing important roles in Thai society in the future and they could cause unexpected troubles to the society. One concrete example is General Suchinja Kraprayoon who was a prime minister of Thailand for only one month and a half. He graduated from Wat Rajabopit School which is a single-gender school. Due to his lack of exposure to the people and his close-minded point of view, he was not able to handle many situations in the country during his period. Thus, he was protested by people who were disgruntled by his performance and duty as a prime minister. Finally, he resigned himself on May 24 1992. Having said that, single-gender education doesn’t necessarily make adolescents unable to communicate with only the same gender, though. It might be true that single-gender education might reduce a chance of the adolescents to meet and interact with the opposite gender, but those adolescents can also communicate and socialize with the opposite gender outside their schools such as at outside private courses, neighboring houses, etc. In addition, some of Thai psychologists claimed that although adolescents are grouped by gender separately, it doesn’t really affect their social life, it all depends on the shyness of the adolescents whether they are able to socialize with the opposite gender after all.