{"id":619,"date":"2022-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joggingvideo.com\/203-year-old-boys-school-kerala-first-batch-girl-students-578180\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:00:00","slug":"203-year-old-boys-school-kerala-first-batch-girl-students-578180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/news\/203-year-old-boys-school-kerala-first-batch-girl-students-578180\/","title":{"rendered":"203-Year-Old Boys School In Kerala Welcomes First Batch Of Girl Students, After 40 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday was a historic day for the Government Model Boys Higher Secondary School in Chalai, in Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram as it welcomed girl students<\/a> for the first time in four decades.<\/p>\n

A total of 12 girls have been admitted to the science and humanities stream in Class XI.<\/p>\n

On their first day at school on Thursday, the girl students were welcomed by Kerala Transport Minister Antony Raju who also gave them saplings.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Want to study in co-ed school<\/a><\/li>\n
Co-ed school became boys only after division<\/a><\/li>\n
No more boys\/girls only schools in Kerala<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav>\n
Want to study in co-ed school<\/span><\/h2>\n
One of the new joinees, who studied till Class X at a girls-only school said she wanted to study in a co-ed system.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
“Not in favour of how gender is being construed or taught in society presently. We are supposed to be studying together. So I came here to study like that,” she said.<\/p>\n
The parents of a girl student told the media that their daughter had expressed her wish to study along with boys in the school and therefore, they admitted her there.<\/p>\n
Co-ed school became boys only after division<\/h3>\n
The school which was established in 1819 had started out as a co-ed institution, but due to an increase in the number of pupils over the years, it was split into three separate schools for boys, girls, and another in Tamil medium.<\/p>\n
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However, after the Kerala government’s move to encourage gender neutrality in schools, which also gave an option to boy\/girls only institutions to become co-eds, the PTA approached Education Minister V Sivankutty for the same.<\/p>\n
And from the current academic year, starting with higher secondary, the school will be open for both boys and girls.<\/p>\n
No more boys\/girls only schools in Kerala<\/h3>\n
Last month, the Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights recommended that\u00a0 boys-only and girls-only schools in the state<\/a>\u00a0should be converted into co-education from the 2023-24 academic year.<\/span><\/p>\n
According to official figures, there were 280 girls’ schools and 164 boys’ schools in the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The Commission has recommended that all these schools, be it government, private, or aided should switch to a co-education system from next year.<\/p>\n
Education Minister V Sivankutty had said that 11 single-gender schools in government and aided sectors were converted into co-education ones in the past year.<\/p>\n
If the school authorities, PTA, and local bodies concerned takes a collective decision and demand the conversion of single-gender schools to co-ed schools, the government would give consent,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that the government was not forcing gender-neutral school uniforms and that it was the prerogative of the educational institutions to decide what kind of uniforms girls and boys should wear.<\/p>\n
*For more on news, sports and current affairs from around the world, please visit\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>**Indiatimes News.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"*
Thursday was a historic day for the Government Model Boys Higher Secondary School in Chalai, in Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram as it welcomed girl students for the first time in four decades. A total of 12 girls have been admitted to the science and humanities stream in Class XI. On their first day at school on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[85,84],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}