What is MYCs policy on gender-segregation?
The MYC environment is geared toward learning and practicing modest and respectful behavior between the sexes, rather than strict gender segregation. To accomplish this, men and women and boys and girls share the same public space during large group activities, such as prayers, classes, meals, and campfire. Within that public space, equal areas are often arranged for separated seating, but communication between men/boys and women/girls is welcome as long as it is respectful, modest and public. For example, each cabin group eats at a designated table that is separate from all other cabins, but as campers clear their tables and put away their dishes, they will interact with other campers from other tables (and other genders) doing the same. Polite and modest communication at that time is necessary and appropriate. Similarly, our classes are gender-inclusive, with boys and girls of the same age studying together in the same class. Sometimes they will be seated separately in that class, an