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I’d rather see my school go co-ed than disappear
As birth cohort sizes shrink, we must accept the reality that single-sex schools might be less viable.
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The writer (front row, lying on the floor) with his Montfort classmates in a group photo taken in 2013.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF AQIL HAMZAH
Almost a decade ago, while I was in national service, news broke that my junior college would merge with another.
Shovelling food into my mouth with one hand and typing furiously to my former classmates with the other, I would eventually come to terms with that bombshell – but not in that moment.
