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Gender discrimination: Girls school sports in underground halls
17-8-2018
Al Akhbar published a feature on sports classes at schools drawing attention to a group of female students who spend the class in a hall in the basement, away from their male peers. The sport hall where the female students are forced to stay during the sports classes, do not look like a playground, Al Akhbar wrote. It is not originally a play area, as the concrete floor is not fit for jogging, which could expose students to permanent injuries. The view is not fitting for students who can feel they are besieged and delimited, the newspaper said. The separation in sports classes is enforced by religious rules, which prohibit coeducation in physical training, as is the case in general high school classes, according to Al Akhbar. Besides, such regulations which are considered standard and normal for the administration of an Islamic school in the southern suburbs of Beirut, are unwelcome by the female students themselves. The separation of boys and girls in PE classes has sparked a row between the administration and the students, Al Akhbar said, explaining that the separation for religious reasons reflects a growing religious culture in society at the cost of civil education. Some of the female students the newspaper spoke to criticized the stereotyping of girls, asking, “Is soccer exclusive to boys and men?”. For his part, the head of the Sports and Scout Activities Unit at the ministry of education, Mazen Qubeisi, pointed out that the separation is mainly due to physiological reasons at certain age groups. (for more on the article, kindly visit the link below: https://goo.gl/oK7trz). (Al Akhbar, August 17, 2018)
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