Who'll Let The Girls In?

Currently there is a debate within the governing body of the Doon School as to whether to make the school co-educational or not.

- Priya Sahgal

Furious letters and WhatsApp messages are being exchanged between the alumni, the headmaster and the school's governing body, arguing both for and against the motion. However, there seems to be an unwritten code of conduct at play, that this is an internal matter to be decided within and not debated outside. Interestingly in 2007, when Mani Shankar Aiyar had addressed the school's founders' day as its chief guest, he had argued in favour of it going co-ed instead of remaining a "uni-sexual Victorian relic". However, when asked by the media to comment on the current debate, Aiyar declined saying he would abide by the school's code of conduct. Well, that's another one for the school—for Aiyar's alma mater has been able to achieve what successive Congress presidents could not.