In Form 1, one of my closest friends had a sugar daddy. He normally came for her as her uncle and then they would go spend the weekend together. Yes from 1! You know the funny part? She would come back and tell me all about the enjoyment. If not for the kind of person my mom is, I probably would have also wanted a sugar daddy. Oh wait you thought I was going to say me? No oh, your girl was far gone in that pressure, it was mostly the thought of my mom’s slaps that kept me from doing somethings that my friends did.
The thing with girls school is that there’s so much pressure from friends. Now what you don’t know is that the pressure comes in categories, good and bad. It depends on you whether you will allow yourself to pressured in a good or bad way. We have boyfriend, dating or sugar daddy pressure. Where most girls flaunt their boyfriends or the number of boyfriends they have. Trust me, if you lose a little focus you might find yourself being pressured to look for a boyfriend.
We have the academic pressure. Oh I didn’t say something about the boyfriend pressure. Most times, those that were in the boyfriend pressure category were also in this category because there are brilliant. Listen, most people in single sex school are brilliant. The worse mistake you can do is to underestimate someone in a girls or boys school and think because of their silly composure, they are not smart academically. You remember the girl that had a sugar daddy in form 1? Yeah, she was one of the maths sharks in class.
There’s also the neatness pressure. See, let let me tell you something about single sex school or let me just say girls because I went to a girls school. In my school, most girls cared so much about how they look. Always making sure their uniforms were ironed. You might be surprised to hear this because you might think after all there’s no boy right, but let me tell you this; girls like to compete with themselves naturally. So I wouldn’t want to come to class with a dirty uniform, whiles my fellow girl, just like me is so neat. I would feel embarrassed.
To every rule, there’s an exception so there were people who didn’t care but trust me, the majority cared. On a more serious note, apart from all of these silly pressures, most girls schools take it upon themselves to nurture girls to become ladies. It’s so beautiful to see how much growth we experience in school. Even the bad nuts, act right when they find themselves out of the school premises.
All in all, if I compare my mixed school experience in primary to my single sex school experience in secondary school, I would choose my single sex school experience over and over again. The journey gets a bit rough and bumpy but then that’s how life is too so by the time you come out ready for university, you would have experienced almost all that you are going to experience in university(especially in terms of all the pressures).