 The Minister of Education, Mr. Aboubeker Benbouzid has criticized the conduct of some schools separating between female and male students at the same classroom, and during the sport program, refusing flatly such practices and calling them strange to the sector, adding that the teaching of the Islamic principles is capable of making the students immune of all bad conducts.
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In this regard, Mr. Benbouzid has indicated that he has discovered recently at some primary schools in Medea central province, that female and male pupils are separated from each other, even worse an isolator has been put between both innocent sexes, and preventing from playing and speaking with each other.
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Seizing the occasion yesterday of the awareness meeting about the educational guidance, the Minister has described these practices as dangerous as they are segregating between the pupils rather than unifying them, adding that this conduct has bad consequences on child education to appear in the future. Mr. Benbouzid has accused the adults of being behind such practices without naming the teachers.
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He further said that the Ministry guarantees the teaching of Islam, for primary, fundamental, and secondary schools students.
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The Minister has criticized sharply such a conduct, “schools in Algeria, are open for both sexes, and they will be so forever,” added Mr. Benbouzid, “we are not different from Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, which do not separate between both sexes,” concluded the same speaker. |