I havent admitted this ever before, but i do now...
Most of my actual 'socialising years' {14 to 16}, i spend in a military school. We had exactly 21 girls for a school full of 600 boys. We had all of ONE girl in our class. We were all having crazy hormones at the time. Know what i became? SHY, to talk to girls.
It took me another seven years before i actually got over my shyness to talk to them. And even now, more often than not, i am not good at initialising a talk with the opposite sex. I am not saying that i became any more worse because of it, but lets just say that i wouldnt want my child to go through the same trauma, if you could call it that.
Co-ed schools are also the place where you learn how to keep that crazy hormones in check. While i agree that sometimes bad things happen, most of the times, it gives you the vital knowledge of how to behave around your opposite sex. From my experience, i was all the more poorer because i went to a school that severely lacked them. If i was given the option to turn back time, hell, i would and get as far away as possible from that military school...
Those two years were the most enjoyable 'boyhood' years of my life, but in so many ways, i also feel that it robbed me of the joy of learning about life the natural way...
The bottom line from me is that let children do what naturally comes to them. Dont keep them forcefully seperated for you are robbing them the opportunity of learning things. While same-sex sxhools would sound like a jolly good idea, from personal experience, i think it is scary. And Qatari, no, you didnt turn out too bad. But to each his own, thats my take on how i faced things. Peace.
I AM at peace with life.
{I DO feel that i got carried away a wee bit. Aisha, no offence to you, ok, please. You are one of those people whom i really respect on this forum.}
I havent admitted this ever before, but i do now...
Most of my actual 'socialising years' {14 to 16}, i spend in a military school. We had exactly 21 girls for a school full of 600 boys. We had all of ONE girl in our class. We were all having crazy hormones at the time. Know what i became? SHY, to talk to girls.
It took me another seven years before i actually got over my shyness to talk to them. And even now, more often than not, i am not good at initialising a talk with the opposite sex. I am not saying that i became any more worse because of it, but lets just say that i wouldnt want my child to go through the same trauma, if you could call it that.
Co-ed schools are also the place where you learn how to keep that crazy hormones in check. While i agree that sometimes bad things happen, most of the times, it gives you the vital knowledge of how to behave around your opposite sex. From my experience, i was all the more poorer because i went to a school that severely lacked them. If i was given the option to turn back time, hell, i would and get as far away as possible from that military school...
Those two years were the most enjoyable 'boyhood' years of my life, but in so many ways, i also feel that it robbed me of the joy of learning about life the natural way...
The bottom line from me is that let children do what naturally comes to them. Dont keep them forcefully seperated for you are robbing them the opportunity of learning things. While same-sex sxhools would sound like a jolly good idea, from personal experience, i think it is scary. And Qatari, no, you didnt turn out too bad. But to each his own, thats my take on how i faced things. Peace.
I AM at peace with life.
{I DO feel that i got carried away a wee bit. Aisha, no offence to you, ok, please. You are one of those people whom i really respect on this forum.}