Meeting

Aims of the meeting

The aim of the meeting was to let all group members express their opinions. We wanted to look at the question of gender integration. Is it a good idea? If so, how could we implement it? What might be the problems+ how we could overcome them?

Minutes of meeting:
(1) Date: 24/2/2010
(2) Place: F 52
(3) Time: 12:25
(4) Abdulrahman Saif Bin Zayed ( H00128332) Chairman
Mohsin Mohamed AL-Hamed (H00132268) Secretary
Mohamed Hassan AL-Hammadi (H00132994) Participant

(5) Agenda :

Is gender integration a good thing?
Good points
Bad points
If we want integration, how can we achieve it?
What might be problems?
How to overcome problems?

(6) The meeting was called to order by Abdulrahman at 12:25 pm. The first item discussed was whether gender integration is a good thing.
Abdulrahman said that boys could sit in the left and the girls in another side, although he said that girls will be shy in class. Mohsin agreed with Abdulrahman but Mohamed didn’t agree because he was studying at a school where boys and girls were mixed there and there was no problem with anybody. Mohamed Al-Hammadi said that most of the girls families will not accept the girls studying with the boys. Abdulrahman agreed with him but Mohsin didn’t agree because he said that there are private schools where they can take their girls to study there. Mohsin said that there will be contact between the boys and girls by the phone and most of the people here in the UAE will not accept the idea of boys and girls mixing with boys in the same class. Mohamed agreed with Mohsin and also Abdulrahman.
We all decided that gender integration would be a good thing. Mohsin thought it would be possible and we all agreed that there were many practical problems to be overcome.
Finally Abdulrahman asked if there was any other business. There being none, he closed the meeting at 12:45 pm.

I learnt from the meeting that I should decide what to do and what not to do in the future. I learnt that we should be in agreement and decide what the good thing is and what the bad thing to do in the meeting is.
I learnt that it is important to have a clear agenda and to stick to it. It is very important to have a Chairman to keep order and a Secretary to write down what everyone says.