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[quote]Salam , you are right Safimera  some muslim schools in north America have a high fee structure but some are charter schools in U.S.A. which are free as they get public money to run the school in a public school district. I for one don't  understand why can't our children that is muslim children study in public schools?  I don't know a lot about UK. but I do know about U.S.A. and Canada both these countries have a good educational system. It offers a lot to a student who wants to learn and if you compare to our own educational system...... there is no comparison. As for Islamic and cultural values are concerned it is the responsibility of the families and that community to instill them in their children. If you don't want your language to die then better  be prepared as to how you are going to teach the children, no one else is going to do it for you. I was once visiting England a few years back and I met a lot of shopkeepers in South hall some women didn't know a word of English even though they had been in England for more than 20 years they understood urdu and were delighted to meet a visitor from Pakistan. The thing I found most surprising was their children who were there helping knew English and a little of the language spoken at home be it Gujrati, Maimni, punjabi or Saraiki but they didn't know a word of Urdu. In Britain the community could ask for the introduction of Urdu as a subject in those schools where they are in a majority that could be one solution. The Muslim community  could request  for halal meals or halal meat used  in school  meals.
             What Muslim families need to understand is when they immigrate to Britain, U.S.A. Canada or Australia  they are entering  another  culture the children brought up in that country  are a part of that culture , they are no more Pakistanis or familiar with  things we take for granted here so parents need to work twice as hard to keep those values alive for them. Elders and Parents need to show some kind of affinity or positivity towards their new homeland, always hearing negative things about the people and the culture  gives mixed signals to the children , lack of knowledge about the educational system alienates the parents  from the classroom and so no trust develops between the parent and the teacher. The youth of these families grow up with fear alienation and are all mixed up and don’t know where they belong with no friends unless they are Muslims too, so how can someone perform with such handicaps.
Iftekhar sahab you  seem to have identified some problems like more muslim teachers in British schools so why aren’t  more muslim teachers coming up from the community? As for children not being able to read and write even after high school, I had heard about that and that is why the literacy policy had come up  with more emphasis on reading  strategies  at  Key stage 1 the problem with reading in schools is a global one and I for one think  the problem is that we have lost the reading habit and the children have no role models in their homes so the habit to read a book a magazine at bedtime or at breakfast is no more.[/quote]

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