Is this a sign of development?

Today I was shocked to read the news !

Just a day back I posted something in a nostalgic mood and that exactly said about this topic. The excitement that was there in our school days during the Saraswati Pujas. The boys, in their mid-teens, venturing into the Girls' schools on such days.. these days being so special to them.

And today I came to know that the headmistresses of certain girls' schools felt that their schools become insecured due to too many tresspassers on those puja days and hence took the decision to close the gate of the schools to all 'outsiders'.

This raises two questions before us.
i) The boys these days are not enough civilised and have lost their dignity. The society is becoming more and more unsafe for girls these days. Their behaviour towards girls in general has deteriorated so much that putting a bar on them has become unavoidable.

ii) The earlier generation are yet to become open-minded to forget this discrimination between girls and boys. They are unable to accept all of them to be part of the same community called 'students'. And in a world where this discrimination between these two sexes are getting thinner and thinner some orthodox people are still making the younger generation remember that they are not the same. And as like any other rules forced among the youth the interest to break away from it or deliberately violating the rule is becoming more and more .. resulting in an even insecured society for the girls.

Nevertheless both of these give us a rather unhealthy picture of the society. And raises a question : "ekei ki bole sobhyota?" ( Is it really worthy of calling the progress of civilisation?) Are we really proceeding towards a better future? Or another 'dark age' in the society is not too far away!?