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Male cleaners unwelcome at RAK girls schools
Parents have complained about male cleaners at secondary schools for girls and suggested replacing them with women or changing their working hours starting from the end of the academic day.
- By Nasouh Nazzal, Staff Reporter
- Published: 22:50 November 8, 2008
Ras Al Khaimah: Parents have complained about male cleaners at secondary schools for girls and suggested replacing them with women or changing their working hours starting from the end of the academic day.
Parents said men can not be in the premises of the schools when the girls are present and the easy way out was to reschedule their working hours so that they begin their job once the girls go home.
Parents said they have submitted their complaints to the school managements, the Educational Zone and the Ministry of Education.
They said the girls at the secondary stage are adult women and should not interact with men, including the cleaners. They said most of the secondary schools have male cleaners and the girl pupils have complained about this.
Change work hours
The parents said the Educational Zone can be spared from the demand of replacing the men with women at the secondary schools, but the zone should reschedule the working hours of the male cleaners in these schools.
The parents said girls of the age group 15-19 years go for physical fitness lessons when male cleaners are around, which is not acceptable to the girls and their families. The parents said they have asked their daughters not to attend these lessons.
A official at RAK Educational Zone confirmed that some secondary girls' schools have received such requests from parents and the managements in co-operation with the zone will discuss them and come up with a final decision soon.
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