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the boys and girls at Al-Azhar school in Stockholm does not have together sport has aroused reactions. The National Supervisory Authority’s decision to approve the gender-segregated gymnastics has been criticized by all four Alliance parties and the Education Minister Gustav Fridolin (MP) has said that the government should review the law.
Al-Azhar school is one of ten schools with a Muslim orientation in Sweden registered as confessional of the National Agency. Two more of these, Progress School in Stockholm and Dawn School in Botkyrka, according to SvD that they also divide boys and girls PE classes.
The two schools, Cordoba International School in Stockholm and Römosseskolan in Gothenburg, we get not find someone who can answer questions. But when SvD in the e-mail asking the question as a parent wondering states both schools to girls and boys have separate sports lessons.
Four schools report that physical education classes are common. A school, Imanskolan in Uppsala, has not responded.
On Progress School have PE classes were divided into boys and girls teams since the school started in 1995, according to the Rector Khemais Bassoumi to many girls otherwise would not participate.
– they say schools and teachers to the need to adapt the lessons to the students’ needs. When we do that, then everyone says “no, you will not adapt in this way.”
He questions the criticism.
– We have been around for twenty years, and it has gone well. What is it that makes it bad right now? he said.
Khemais Bassoumi points out that the School Inspectorate has been at the school several times without having had views on physical education.
Dawn School in Botkyrka have gender-segregated physical education from with grade four. Yasri khan is chairman of school, and he points out that physical education is divided but equal.
The reason behind the gender division is to make students feel more comfortable in class, and is something that both parents and students demanded. According yasri khan, there are studies showing increased sense of insecurity during PE classes, and that it can lead to truancy.
– This is a way to practice sport more equally.
According yasri khan there are more competitive element in sport compared to other classes, and he points to the different physical characteristics between boys and girls and that it is often gender-divided when children practice sports as a hobby in his spare time, for example, in football.
– Look at the rest of society, that is how it is structured. We have such a talented football team in the women who took the Olympic silver. One can have opinions about these things, but it is something that exists in the community.
How common phenomenon in schools that do not have a Muslim orientation is not clear. The magazine National World has written about girls and boys split up during gymnastics also Laboraskolan in Långaryd, run by the Plymouth Brethren.
It was after , a notification Schools Inspectorate examined the Al-Azhar school PE lessons .
Press Manager Carina Larsson believes that it is the only time to date that the Schools Inspectorate investigated gender-specific sports.
– the Education Act does not regulate this issue, and therefore it is not something we have with us when we examines schools. The key is how the school as a whole is working to create an equal education and how to work to counteract traditional gender patterns and has a good value system work, says Carina Larsson.
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