What are your thoughts on the few co-ed schools in India which don't allow boys and girls to interact with each other?
I think these people need to take their heads out of wherever they have put them and look at the world around them. This is an obsolete and regressive practice, students should be able to express how they feel and interact with each other. Such a practice has serious ramifications; I have had so many friends in college who attended schools who restricted conversations between boys and girls, these friends had serious issues in talking to boys in the college. It took them a lot of time to grow out of this. This could have seriously harmed them in their occupation. Such schools also ingrain misconceptions about the other gender in students which are carried forward. Co-ed schools in India have developed after looking at the problems that single-gendered schools were leading. In co-ed schools both boys and girls share classes and take part in school activities side by side. They may even discover they're more alike than they thought. It's proven that a co-ed education offers m...