21.12.2011                      25.Kislev. 5772                       Channuka 1

Schulversuch:

Israeli school simulates gender segregation

Students at a Herzliya high school were surprised to find a large sign calling for a division between sexes; Principal: idea is educational and meant to strengthen students' consciousness.

Students at a local Herzliya high school were startled by the large yellow sign hanging above their heads as they entered school on Tuesday morning. The sign called for the division between sexes in the classroom, forcing girls to sit on the right while boys sat on the left. Even a Mechitza – a Halakhic partition used to divide men and women in places of Jewish worship – was placed at the entrance to the school, in order to emphasize the notion of separation among the hundreds of students who attend the school.
The first few minutes of the morning seemed typical enough – the students, most of whom reacted with sleepy apathy to the change. As he predicted, Principal Yaakov Nahum’s students followed the rules, and separated themselves along gender lines….