Florence Yim 11G
How far does your own experience lead you to believe that men and women have equal chances?
Since I was a little girl my parents and teacher have always taught me that boys and girls are the same. I was wondering, then why we have to label a boy as he and a girl as she? Why boys and girls need to go to toilet separately? Then I gradually understand the true meaning of it. When my mother said to me ‘boys and girls are the same’ doesn’t mean they are identically the same. In fact she wanted to suggest they have equal value, equal rights and should be accorded equal treatment.
I believe I was born in a totally equalitarian society and generation. In Hong Kong I was studied in a coeducation school since reception year. I felt more than happy to study with pupils others than girls. I found it rather less boring than just social with only girls. However, until five years before, I have begun to study in a single-sex school. At first, I was so worried that I would not get use to a new circumstance, and parents were not beside me either. Nevertheless, the situation did not become worse as I thought, yet even allowed me to meet lots of new friends that from other countries and I get along with them very well. Apparently there are some kind of problems lead nowadays’ people continuously argue whether should they abandon single-sex school or they should let the young try to adapt themselves to the normal social world that they will eventually experience is their later life. Where as, some of the parents would worry their daughter will become too social disposition and they normally think boys and girls would distract each other. Some of the people even suggest single-sex schools dominate the top places in league table and girls come out top in most GCSE subject. Therefore they would prefer to send their children to a single-sex school.
