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<\/A>A Ugandan politician came up with a novel scholarship scheme a couple of weeks ago (via chick pea<\/A>):<\/P>\n\nA Ugandan member of parliament has pledged to reward [high school] girls for their chastity by paying their university fees if they are virgins when they leave school… Bbaale County MP Sulaiman Madada said any girl in his district who wanted to take part in the scheme aimed at promoting girls’ education would be given a gynecological examination by health workers to check they were virgins. [Link<\/A>]<\/P>\n
“We want to encourage people to be morally upright and not to go into early marriages,” Madada said, adding, “We also want girls to resist defilement. We do not want these girls to get exposed to AIDS…” [Link<\/A>]<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n
If ‘free schooling for virgins’ were extended to desis, it would rapidly bankrupt both the IITs and the MITs. But the program would hardly cost a paisa at certain art schools in Bombay, and even in Delhi it would get cheaper over time<\/A>. \n
Of course, if you interrogated virginal high school students before<\/EM> handing out the money, you might find out why they want to go away to college in the first place
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\nMadada has not extended his offer to young men, because there is no medical examination to prove their virginity. [Link<\/A>]<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n
You don’t need a medical exam for that. Just ask if they blog.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Ugandan politician came up with a novel scholarship scheme a couple of weeks ago (via chick pea): A Ugandan member of parliament has pledged to reward [high school] girls for their chastity by paying their university fees if they … Continue reading