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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Bauchi State in northern Nigeria has banned co-education at all junior and senior schools
The bill listed a number of reasons including the need to fight teenage pregnancies and poor performance. Bauchi MP Aminu Tukur said that teenagers especially had difficulty controlling their sexual urges.
I went to a private single-sex high school for awhile followed by a public co-ed one. My experience was that at the all-boys high school there was a lot of "dirty" talk that boys wouldnt have been able to get away with if girls were around. This, despite the fact that it was a Christian school that took itself pretty seriously. So I dont know if I believe the idea that separating boys and girls takes the boys' minds off of sex.
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So what's your opinion on that, good or bad?
I went to a private single-sex high school for awhile followed by a public co-ed one. My experience was that at the all-boys high school there was a lot of "dirty" talk that boys wouldnt have been able to get away with if girls were around. This, despite the fact that it was a Christian school that took itself pretty seriously. So I dont know if I believe the idea that separating boys and girls takes the boys' minds off of sex.
If they felt the need to separate the children then it was obviously good. I just felt it odd that they had to go to such extreme measures.
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