Gender segregation at coed school
By SARBAN SINGH
SEREMBAN: Negeri Sembilan Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan has asked for a report from the state Education Department on why the male and female students at co-ed school SMK Senawang Jaya near here have been segregated.
The students are not allowed to study in the same class, eat at the same table in the canteen or to conduct experiments in the same lab.
State Education Department director Abdullah Mohammad said the school had not been granted permission to segregate the students.
Abdullah, who met the school authorities after being told of the matter on Wednesday, said he had directed the senior assistant to ensure the policy was rescinded immediately.
“In fact, I was surprised when told that there were different walkways for male and female students. This cannot be allowed,” he said.
The school headmaster Muhammad Amir YM Shariff was away performing the haj in Mecca.
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