Gender mobility

There is no sitting place in classrooms. , Photo Credit: Getty Images

If you moved to a lecture hall in any medical college in the early 2000s, you will see male students and women on the other side. Gender criteria in the classroom were rarely swept away. That generation – my generation – professors were feared. Fear that they may think bad about us and our “free” preferences, and most important, fail us.

Somewhere with the line somewhere, while I was busy getting old and settling, it all changed. Changed for good, I believe.

Now walking in a classroom in the role of a teacher, it still catchs me off-guards when I see the mixed class mixed in every way. Everywhere, men sitting on every bench scored in women or other ways. The centuries -old Indian tradition of isolation between gender is changing, and the rule book is being re -written with a bright new dictatorship.

These days there is nothing in medical literature, there is a need to ask questions-can it be a post-coid incident? Schools were all online during lockdown. And when the restrictions were lifted, the children came with the force that the old gender laws of classroom etiquette became obsolete.

Impossible, right?

The more obvious reason is the popularity and as a result of the small world, large ideas and broad mindset of social media. It is not that all this started as a silent revolution by some unknown brave person in the obscure class of an absent-mind teacher, which did not take into consideration the disruption in the seating system.

I have an answer for the question why it is such an important milestone in social gender laws. We still live in a world where chasing is romance, rejection leads to murder, and honor murders are just one more news. Our children need to learn general social interaction with other sexes. They need to learn the difference between chase and romance. They should have relationships that make them, and they also need to learn that such relationships can also be friends. They should accept love, brave rejections and failures. And we, as the older generation, are obliged to provide them such an environment. But instead, our culture discourages the boy and girl from joining each other in their childhood days, engaging on them, and hoping that they hope to live a happy life with children and picket fences.

A classroom has a mixed seating arrangement, but a beginning to normalize friendship in sexes, to normalize love affairs and love failures, and a beginning for a generation with healthy relationships compared to our compared to our. This is definitely not, without resistance.

There are teachers who declare that this mixture of boys and girls disrupt the classroom. They claim that such a seating arrangement keeps something else in the minds of the students. They credits every failure in the examination for the unlikely mixed classes. But there is no decisive evidence for this, and they, at least for me, feel like rubbing a rusty mind that is resistant to changing. And time will prove that our new generation is following the right path.

To conclude this conclusion, whenever I see a properly mixed orbit, the unabsheated friends of different sexes on a motorcycle, who rather than a professor in greeting instead of a deep bow, shows some respect to a professor, reflects some respect, a class that forgets to stand to stand for a teacher, I change, I change, progresses. If all this is far away from Indian culture, which you have grown up, then stop me reminding me that any culture for change has survived from march of ineligible time.

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