Opposite sex interaction: Is it healthy for students?
I would like to express my opinion in connection to last week’s Education Vision letter, “We want to interact with boys.†According to my personal experience in St. Henry’s College Kitovu, Masaka in 1996, we used to have social functions.
I would like to express my opinion in connection to last week’s Education Vision letter, “We want to interact with boys.†According to my personal experience in St. Henry’s College Kitovu, Masaka in 1996, we used to have social functions. Each year, a Senior Six class would visit one of the girls’ neighbouring schools of its choice like Bwanda, Bukulula or Bulinda all organised together with the school administration.
However, none of these yielded a “significant†relationship, since none of the students in our year carried the relationship forward. As much as this may not have been our turn, other students can start meaningful relationships from such interactions. They should however be used as a start for courtship, rather than intimate relations at such a stage of life.
Apart from this, we also had “bull dances†where we would dance to hip-hop songs to burn some of the calories in absence of the girls.
Interacting with the opposite sex may be one’s desire, but to some students, it makes them lose concentration on studies. Put simply, students may pursue their studies, classroom discussions and school activities without the need to be confronted on a daily basis with male-female socialisation issues.
Kiyingi Geoffrey
Teacher Educator, Fortportal
I am writing in response to the letter in last week’s Education Vision letter, “We want to interact with boys.†The society in which we live (including the family) comprises of males and females. Even the basic unit of the society, the family has both male and female. This is where the children learn to understand and relate with the opposite sex in healthy ways.
The children who are in mixed schools or who have regular interaction with the opposite sex are healthier socially and more flexible than those who lack this opportunity. A denial of this healthy interaction with the opposite sex is dangerous to social development.
Mark Kigozi,
Pastor and Teacher
However, none of these yielded a “significant†relationship, since none of the students in our year carried the relationship forward. As much as this may not have been our turn, other students can start meaningful relationships from such interactions. They should however be used as a start for courtship, rather than intimate relations at such a stage of life.
Apart from this, we also had “bull dances†where we would dance to hip-hop songs to burn some of the calories in absence of the girls.
Interacting with the opposite sex may be one’s desire, but to some students, it makes them lose concentration on studies. Put simply, students may pursue their studies, classroom discussions and school activities without the need to be confronted on a daily basis with male-female socialisation issues.
Kiyingi Geoffrey
Teacher Educator, Fortportal
I am writing in response to the letter in last week’s Education Vision letter, “We want to interact with boys.†The society in which we live (including the family) comprises of males and females. Even the basic unit of the society, the family has both male and female. This is where the children learn to understand and relate with the opposite sex in healthy ways.
The children who are in mixed schools or who have regular interaction with the opposite sex are healthier socially and more flexible than those who lack this opportunity. A denial of this healthy interaction with the opposite sex is dangerous to social development.
Mark Kigozi,
Pastor and Teacher