The owners of a number of private schools in Kuwait have  expressed their discontent with the approval by a parliamentary   legislative committee of a proposal to impose gender segregation in public schools, while rejecting another proposal to leave the choice on this matter in universities to individual universities’ administrations. Private schools warn that the measure would have an adverse effect on many generations and have a harmful effect on students themselves. The issue of whether or not the proposal will advance further has yet to be decided, but members of the Union of Private Schools intend to utilize every means to oppose the introduction of such segregation in education at a time when Kuwait’s conservative neighbor Saudi Arabia is allowing coeducational classes at King Abdullah University and moving toward taking serious steps to get rid of such “unacceptable” measures.

By Staff