Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
Reports have been emerging that the Bahraini parliament has passed a bill regarding the lack of disciplinary action in schools, specifically private schools and institutions.
The reports say that strict 'zero-tolerance' rules must be put in place to control 'immoral' actions by students who unethically go against the rules and traditions here.
The reports go on to say that in private schools, such actions have led to our students being Satanic and that such 'immoral' actions are the reason why many of this generation's youth are filled with violence and sexual confusion. Yes you read right, the gentlemen believe the freedom of co-ed classes, immersion in foreign education and the interaction of opposite sexes are the reasons that my generation have gone astray.
Nowhere in the reports I read have they pinpointed activities going on in government schools and institutions. Nowhere does it say more actions and more investigations must be put into place in schools where violence and even sexual confusion is greater. It makes me angry that the parliament continues on and on about why sexual segregation must be considered 'better' when members have never actually spent a day in a co-educational class.
I believe the parliament chose simple statistics of individual cases that occurred in schools and chose to exaggerate them in order to pass the bill.
To the parliament I tell you this: I personally think that you guys are afraid of educated minds, afraid that too much power is being fed into us and that by sending more and more councillors and imposing more rules, you are simply making excuses to just monitor the better parts of the educational system.
Such 'activities' rarely occur in our schools, take it from a student who has spent his last 12 years in such a system. It simply does not happen. Remind me again who elected those in parliament? Till next time then.
