You know what really REALLY annoys me? I’ll tell you! It’s when people come up to me and tell me that I don’t look or sound like a girl who graduated from a public school in Kuwait. Or when people start talking about how girls who went to 7ikooma are less educated and more boy-crazy than girls who went to private schools. I’m not going to talk about the male-stereotypes because 1) I don’t want to keep saying him/her and 2) because I’m not AS aware of the male stereotypes as I am the female ones. Nibtidi il 7adeeth:

I graduated from a public school. I loved my high school and I love the friends that I made as a result of being there. I am not going to pretend that I am a pure bred 7ikooma girl because I only spent my high school days in one. Now, it really bothers me when people tell me that I don’t sound like a 7ikooma girl because I can speak English properly but I accept it and explain to them where I got my English from. I accept it because it is an undeniable fact that the English that is being taught at public schools in Kuwait is below par. What I don’t tolerate on the other hand is when people tell me that 7ikooma students aren’t as educated as Khasa students. It really bothers me because that remark drips of condescending ignorance. I’ll tell you why, while you were learning how to perfect your English, 7ikooma girls were taught how to speak Arabic properly, something ya 3yalt il khasa that you lack. Not all of you, just like not all of 7ikooma girls lack English skills. While you were being taught US history (which I was taught in middle school, ekh?) they were being taught the history of Kuwait and the Middle East. While you were being taught Science in English, they were being taught the exact same Science in Arabic. So tell me, PLEASE enlighten me, how the hell do you think that you were better educated? They took P.E., they took Home Ec., they took French, they took all the same classes that you took but in a different language. I’m the first person that will tell you that every person should have some understanding of the English language because it’s the most spoken language in the world and being fluent in it will help you A LOT. What it doesn’t do though, is be a determent of whether you are educated or not. On the other hand, do you know WHAT makes you look stupid? Not being able to hold a conversation in your mother tongue. Not being able to WRITE and SPEAK proper Arabic when you were raised your entire life in an Arab country. THAT is what makes you look stupid, not whether you can grasp the basic grammatical conventions of another language.

Phew! That took a lot out of me, what else did I want to talk about? Oh oh I remember, 7ikooma girls being sluttier and looser than girls that graduated from Private schools. I won’t answer this in the length in which I discussed the first matter. What I would like to say though is that, how many girls graduate from a private school per year? Let’s assume in the best case scenario that 200 students graduate from any given private school every year (the number is WAY less). If 200 students graduate every year, let’s say that 100 of them are girls. In a public school, 300 girls graduate every year (give or take some). I’ll go as far out to say that we have just as many private schools as we do public. If that was the case, a THIRD of the girls go to private schools while 2/3 go to public schools.

Let’s make this a tad more interesting using the Adorrian formula, in Kuwait we do NOT have as many private schools as we do public so in fact it could be as large as a quarter of girls go to private schools but it’s probably less than that. “People” say ina “ee ya3ni intay ra7 tilgain fas3at ib madares khasa laken mo kither ili tilgainhum ib madares 7ikooma, bil madares il khasa tilgainlech yumkin khams banat laken ib madares 7ikooma tilgainlech arba3ta3ash bint!”

Let us assume that this false statistic that you pulled out of your ass is true, Using my Adorrian formula, let’s say that the entire 16-year old female population of Kuwait consists of 100 girls. 25 girls go to a private school while 75 go to a public school. If in fact only 5 girls from the 25 are sluts then that equals 20% of the girls that go to this private school. Also, if 14 girls out of the 75 students at this public school are sluts then that equates to 18.6%. Now tell me, who is sluttier? :-)

The point of this post is not to say that fi’a mo3ayana is sluttier than fi’a okhra, I am plainly stating that obviously it seems like a bigger amount of slutty girls/lesbians is emerging from Public schools because there is an obviously bigger amount of girls in those schools! If there was an equal amount of girls in both schools then you would most likely have an equal (give or take one) amount of sluts in both.

I am completely drained from writing this and I would just like to add a small disclaimer that I have an equal amount of friends in both of these schools. I don’t think that one group is smarter than the other, I also don’t think that one group is sluttier than the other. I think they are both equally smart and slutty (or lack of). If you think this is offensive, then I’m sorry it wasn’t meant to be. The only way that you could actually perceive this post as offensive is if you in fact are from a private school, and if you DO think it is offensive that I think that you are JUST as smart as a girl from a Public school, then STFU I intended to offend you.

Also, this post does not apply to Arabic Private schools, only English and American ones. Wa shukran!