Sexual segregation in schools

The school equivalent of prom is coming up, and I have already posted a similar topic exactly a year ago (although in retrospect, it seemed very boring). However I have finally understood the reason of why as the years pass, the school Formals will forever be one of the most boring events in our school year. And that reason is the sexual segregation in my school.

Everywhere I turn I see the girls talking within themselves and the boys talking within themselves. I am sure this is so for many other schools. The only problem is is that they fail to talk to each other, with the exception of course, of me *cough cough*. On questioning, many of the girls do say "I talk to guys" as if it was some sort of special gift that they had. And looking at that again, I did see that. What I did fail to see was some sort of social connection. Both the guys' and girls' idea of talking went a little something like this:

G: "Hey"

B: "Hi"

G: "Did you do the maths homework?"

B: "Yeah I did. You?"

G: "Yeah. See ya"

Yeah there was an exchange of information, which is often what the whole point of conversation is.What I did notice was a lack of social interaction. Would the fact that the boy did his maths homework have any impact on your future actions? Would it in any way strengthen your social relationship? Would it give you any in depth insight on his character? Of course not. All you have done is just to basically create a strictly work - based relationship, which is not what you want to do. Those who force themselves into talking to the opposite sex usually find that they have nothing else to talk about besides homework and that anything outside of work would be considered peculiar. 

It seems slightly amusing how it is specifically my year that seems to have this problem with conversing with the opposite sex. Perhaps this is something that developed since young. Furthermore each sex is further sub-divided into their own groups within our year. Therefore at the Formals, a lot of people will be confined to talking to only 10 people. It may be satisfying for them, but not really to me. Being the social animal that I am *cough cough*, I tend to require a lot of social interaction with as much people as possible. It seems interesting talking to other people, it is as if you are learning more and more about their background as well as their ethnic background and, seeing how I am in an international school, every person has their own special background, that I desperately wish to learn about. 

Therefore don't be afraid to socialise with other people. I'm sure they would love to hear about your life as much as you want to learn about theirs.

Cheers,

Matthew Tan