Comments on: Question: "Should I send my kids to a public school or an Islamic school?" https://www.virtualmosque.com/relationships/marriage-family/children-marriage-family/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/ Tue, 04 Jul 2023 12:21:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: sanam https://www.virtualmosque.com/relationships/marriage-family/children-marriage-family/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-524724 Tue, 04 Jul 2023 12:21:46 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/blog/br-suhaib/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-524724 In reply to fozia.

Assalamalaikum

I am very confused but still firm for the end result. So i have decided to pull out a private school and place him in Al khair school in croydon. My first preference is my son’s deen to be strong and everything will follow on Insha allah. After seeing your message thought it will be worth to get your comment. Please reply

]]> By: Safa https://www.virtualmosque.com/relationships/marriage-family/children-marriage-family/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6194 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:47:19 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/blog/br-suhaib/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6194 Asalamualaikum muslim school for primary and state for secondary

]]> By: Alisha https://www.virtualmosque.com/relationships/marriage-family/children-marriage-family/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6193 Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:42:42 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/blog/br-suhaib/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6193 Assalamulikum,
It is true, islamic schools cannot compare to the resources that public schools can. But if we do not invest our money and time in our schools they will never grow. As a public school teacher, I teach at an amazing high school but the peer pressure to conform is real. I have many Muslim students who’s parents are from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, B- desh, all the boroughs of NyC, West Indies and most of them feel this need to fit in. So they attend prom, have girl friends /boy friends and they tell the teacher their parents would not approve so the teachers help.them trick the parents. To the non Muslim teachers what is so wrong with dances and text messaging a boy? The idea to most people is Muslims are oppressed and need to change with the times. Hijabis are kissing in the hall ways. Yes it happens, your innocent kids during puberty are not so innocent when they are able to be.
Some of the best private schools are Catholic and Jewish because the people in their community spent time and money on their communities. It is hard to have the most qualified teachers when parents complain about the tuition. Teachers who have a masters will eventually move on to public school. Most people are never going to go back to their parents mother land so it is imperative we invest our money here and create a space for our kids to grow with a strong sense of self. Why should we always use other peoples resources, we should create our own. Many people who come from different countries are able to start businesses, get jobs, become college educated, despite having to.learn English and deal with the biggest dose of culture shock. Children who grow up in America and speak English fluently, go to playgrounds , museums and other activities will be fine if the attend Islamic school. If our parents survived they have a bigger advantage. If you feel insecure about the curriculum not being up to par,supplement with work books, tutoring. Successful public school students do that, they receive outside help.
Our children’s character and what they are exposed to as they develop are far mkre important then anything else. If you are able to financially pay for Islamic school in my opinion you should send your children and support the school on a positive way. Stop bringing Islamic schools down, if you dont like something then work to change it. They wouldn’t hire the aunty if they took more tuition. We need to be a stronger community for our future generations who won’t have a link to back home. Many immigrant communities started out struggling.

]]> By: Sadaf Afshan https://www.virtualmosque.com/relationships/marriage-family/children-marriage-family/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6192 Sun, 11 May 2014 04:19:35 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/blog/br-suhaib/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6192 Assalamaleikum, I have high regard for Imam Suhaib Webb and was a bit surprised to read this article. I don’t know the situation at the time this article was written. A lot of progress can be made in 6 years . However, in present times, at least here in Canada the situation is quite different. My elder daughter went to a public school for a year in 2010 before we moved her to a full time Islamic school. Actually, we always wanted to send her to an Islamic school but felt that at that age ( Jr. KG) full time ( 8:30 – 3:30) would be too much. At that time the public schools in our area offered Kindergraten for only 3 hours. We felt that it didn’t matter much which school she went to at that age. We were soon proved wrong. Public schools claim that they don’t have anything to do with religion but still festivals like Halloween and Valentine’s Day are celebrated because they are supposed to be a part of culture rather than religion but we know that it’s not true from an Islamic point of view. Within a few months of starting Islamic school my daughter went about reciting surahs while playing instead of nursery rhymes. She reminded us to recite our duas and recommended her friends not to celebrate birthdays or dress up on Halloween. Even for subjects like Math and English she went much ahead of her peers within a few months of joining the private Islamic school. Here, in my city in Canada most Islamic schools only hire qualified teachers certified by the state education board. Since , the parents are paying such a high fee the teachers feel more accountable and pay individual attention to the students.When it was time for my second daughter to start school my husband and I never had second thoughts about sending her to full time Islamic school right from the very beginning. Recently, there was a controversy here in Ontario about celebrating ‘Pink Day’ in public schools. Children were read stories on why homosexuality should be accepted. This particular incident reinforced my belief that I took the right decision about choosing an islamic school for my kids. No doubt, the high fees is one of the biggest reasons which deters most of us from choosing Islamic schools over private schools but I believe that if we are doing this for the sake of Allah SWT, He will make the path easy for us, Insha’Allah.

]]> By: Malik Storm https://www.virtualmosque.com/relationships/marriage-family/children-marriage-family/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6191 Sun, 08 Dec 2013 15:25:08 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/blog/br-suhaib/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6191 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3luJD8bMjJs
YOou said something different in your lecture ,sheikh.

]]> By: Malik https://www.virtualmosque.com/relationships/marriage-family/children-marriage-family/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6190 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 16:46:40 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/blog/br-suhaib/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6190 In reply to Malik.

Razi school in New York is also very good. To get into that school you need to be interviewed. Some of the students from Razi school made it into the finals for the Science Olympiad.

]]> By: Adam https://www.virtualmosque.com/relationships/marriage-family/children-marriage-family/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6189 Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:25:06 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/blog/br-suhaib/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6189 In reply to ….

Respected brothers and sisters, please don’t put Islamic Schools down regardless of their quality because the are evolving and I recommend reading, how Islam started? people were week for 13 long years with the most powerful man(The Prophet of God)with Ultimate support by (God) yet they have to go through all the turmoils. You are comparing apples and oranges because comparing Islamic Schools with public is no comparison. Just like Eman(faith) & kufr(disbelief)can’t be compared. You don’t consider anyone to be a writer because he/she knows how to type. I advise you to leave people with how they feel comfortable putting their kids in certain environment. If you’re OK with public schools that’s your choice but implying that Islamic Schools are not good or what have you, is not fair. Be careful being ignorant “There is in ignorance a death for its people before death, and their bodies before burial are graves, and their souls are in grief on account of their bodies, and there is no resurrection for them (from death) until the Resurrection.”
Our Prophet said; The cure for ignorance is to question and to learn,“Indeed the cure for ignorance is to ask.” [Reported by Ahmed, Abu Daawood and Ibn Maajah. (Hasan)] So he made ignorance a disease and declared asking to be its cure. And Ibn al-Qayyim said in his Ash-Shaafiyatul-Kaafiyah, “Ignorance is a fatal malady and its cure is in two things in agreement: A text from the Qur`aan or from the Sunnah, and a physician possessing knowledge of the Deen.” do you think the knowledge of our Deen (our way of life)taught in Public Schools?

]]> By: Malik https://www.virtualmosque.com/relationships/marriage-family/children-marriage-family/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6188 Wed, 20 Nov 2013 01:44:15 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/blog/br-suhaib/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6188 In reply to Sister.

I know some good islamic schools in New York. They are: Al-Ihsan Academy, Al-Madina, and Wellspring. Al-Aqsa in Chicago is also very good.

]]> By: Malik https://www.virtualmosque.com/relationships/marriage-family/children-marriage-family/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6187 Wed, 23 Oct 2013 20:55:25 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/blog/br-suhaib/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6187 In reply to Sister.

As is said earlier there are many good Islamic school. Al-Madinah and Al-Ihsan in New York are great schools whose secular education is even better than the public schools.

]]> By: Malik https://www.virtualmosque.com/relationships/marriage-family/children-marriage-family/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6186 Wed, 23 Oct 2013 20:48:05 +0000 http://www.virtualmosque.com/blog/br-suhaib/question-should-i-send-my-kids-to-a-public-school-or-an-islamic-school/#comment-6186 Actually, there is one school in New York called Al-Ihsan Academy that is very good. Some kids there are bad because they were originally from public school and established a bad record so they were switched to Al-Ihsan ,but I have seen many good kids. They aren’t incubated there and also many non-muslims visit the school (there are non muslim catapult teachers) and in the 5th grade, Al-Ihsan meets with 2 Jewish school and one other islamic school to discuss about each others’ faiths and have fun with each other.
Al-Ihsan offers high quality education. The 1st graders are doing 3rd grade math and the 8th graders are doing 10th grade math. Science is very good too. The teachers link subjects to reinforce what they learn. For example: the 7th grades learned about slope and how it applies to osmosis and diffusion in plants in science class. The kids who don’t succeed there are the kids who don’t want to try and don’t care about school.
There is almost no politics in the school. If there is any, it is never publicized and the parents and students know nothing about the politics.
Al-Ihsan offers many things to its students. In fact, the other day the NAO robot was bought in for a demonstration in front of the whole school. The school also has a basketball team, a STEM club, and a drama club.
The school is also very clean. It also offers many good school trips ,such as to Dorney Park, Six Flags, the Hall of science, plays on famous classics in English literature, etc.
The teachers there are very nice and caring. They respect as individuals and understand you. They give you fair grades and treatment.

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