> Mumbai schools ban girl-boy touch

Agnel

hey may be co-educational schools in metropolitan Mumbai, but are still insisting drawing on a line that divides the boys from the girls.

Two schools in Mumbai issued notices this week asking girls and boys studying there not to touch or hug members of the opposite sex.

Vibgyor School and Jamnabai Nursery School have specifically forbidden boys and girls from touching or hugging members of the opposite sex in the school premises.

School authorities say the rule will “discipline” students, who are easily exposed to and influenced by violence and vulgarity on TV and other media.

"It is our duty ki unko bataya jai kya sahi hai, kya galat hai (... to tell them what's right and what's wrong)," Trustee of Vibgyor School, Rustam Kherawala argues, justifying the move.

Both the schools distributed circulars to students and their parents over the last week. But there have been mixed reactions to the new rule. Some students are quite unhappy with the directive.

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Sandeep

^Now this is crap... They cant be like this.. Hug is understandable.. Touch??? R we goin bk in dark age?

Safin

wonderful.
all we need now is a directive that girls needn't study, and taliban to make an entry into India :bye: (Taliban must be wondering why they didn't come here in the first place, the atmosphere is so congenial already)

Agnel

These folks should have studied in Jeppiar's College in chennai

Agnel

Originally Posted by Safin

wonderful.
all we need now is a directive that girls needn't study, and taliban to make an entry into India :bye: (Taliban must be wondering why they didn't come here in the first place, the atmosphere is so congenial already)

Actually something like that is happening...

India will never change..

Private Ryan

tht completely negates the concept of co-ed schools...why have them around then??

Safin

ryan, out of interest

are the wela classes also co-ed?

chic_magnet

oh....wonder when they would start accepting homo sexuality too? hmm

Sandeep

^Good point... What if they start discoverin homosexuality in schools? Wil they start personal coaching?

On a serious note, this is not a way to bring discipline to the students... The real discipline comes from inside. Discipline shud not come from fear, but it shud come from knowledge..