Free Our Schools

[Iftikhar]

Free Our Schools

Almost all children now believe they go to school to pass exams. The idea that they may be there for an education is irrelevant. State schools have become exam factories, interested only in A to C Grades. They do not educate children. Exam results do not reflect a candidate’s innate ability. Employers have moaned for years that too many employees cannot read or write properly. According to a survey, school-leavers and even graduates lack basic literacy and numeracy skills. More and more companies are having to provide remedial training to new staff, who can’t write clear instructions, do simple maths, or solve problems. Both graduates and school-leavers were also criticised for their sloppy time-keeping, ignorance of basic customer service and lack of self-discipline.

Bilingual Muslims children have a right, as much as any other faith group, to be taught their culture, languages and faith alongside a mainstream curriculum. More faith schools will be opened under sweeping reforms of the education system in England. There is a dire need for the growth of state funded Muslim schools to meet the growing needs and demands of the Muslim parents and children. Now the time has come that parents and community should take over the running of their local schools. Parent-run schools will give the diversity, the choice and the competition that the wealthy have in the private sector. Parents can perform a better job than the Local Authority because parents have a genuine vested interest. The Local Authority simply cannot be trusted.

The British Government is planning to make it easier to schools to “opt out” from the Local Authorities. Muslim children in state schools feel isolated and confused about who they are. This can cause dissatisfaction and lead them into criminality, and the lack of a true understanding of Islam can ultimately make them more susceptible to the teachings of fundamentalists like Christians during the middle ages and Jews in recent times in Palestine. Fundamentalism is nothing to do with Islam and Muslim; you are either a Muslim or a non-Muslim.

There are hundreds of state primary and secondary schools where Muslim pupils are in majority. In my opinion all such schools may be opted out to become Muslim Academies. This mean the Muslim children will get a decent education. Muslim schools turned out balanced citizens, more tolerant of others and less likely to succumb to criminality or extremism. Muslim schools give young people confidence in who they are and an understanding of Islam’s teaching of tolerance and respect which prepares them for a positive and fulfilling role in society. Muslim schools are attractive to Muslim parents because they have better discipline and teaching Islamic values. Children like discipline, structure and boundaries. Bilingual Muslim children need Bilingual Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods, who understand their needs and demands.

Indiscipline, incivility, binge drinking, drug addiction, gun and knife crimes, teenage pregnancies and abortion are part and parcel of British schooling. These are the reasons why majority of Muslim parents would like to send their children to Muslim schools with Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods. Only less than 5% attend Muslim schools and more than 95% keep on attending state and church schools to be mis-educated and de-educated by non-Muslim monolingual teachers.

None of the British Muslims convicted following the riots in Bradford and Oldham in 2001 or any of those linked to the London bombings had been to Islamic schools. An American Think Tank studied the educational back ground of 300 Jihadists; none of them were educated in Pakistani Madrasas. They were all Western educated by non-Muslim teachers. Bilingual Muslim children need bilingual Muslim teachers as role models. A Cambridge University study found that single-sex classes could make a big difference for boys. They perform better in single-sex classes. The research is promising because male students in the study saw noticeable gains in the grades. The study confirms the Islamic notion that academic achievement is better in single-sex classes.

None of 7/7 bombers and British Muslim youths who are in Syria and Iraq are the product of Muslim schools. They are the product of British schooling which is the home of institutional racism with chicken racist native teachers. It is absurd to believe that Muslim schools, Imams and Masajid teach Muslim children anti-Semitic, homophobic and anti-western views. It is dangerously deceptive and misleading to address text books and discuss them out of their historical, cultural and linguistic context. It is not wrong to teach children that Jews are committing the same cruelty in Palestine what German did to them before or during Second World War. It is not wrong to teach children that anti-social behaviour, drinking, drugs, homosexuality, sex before marriage, teenage pregnancies and abortions are western values and Islam is against all such sins. This does not mean that Muslim schools teach children to hate westerners, Jews and homosexuals.

The demand for Muslim schools comes from parents who want their children a safe environment with an Islamic ethos. Parents see Muslim schools where children can develop their Islamic Identity where they won't feel stigmatised for being Muslims and they can feel confident about their faith. Muslim schools are working to try to create a bridge between communities. There is a belief among ethnic minority parents that the British schooling does not adequately address their cultural needs. Failing to meet this need could result in feeling resentment among a group who already feel excluded. Setting up Muslim school is a defensive response. State schools with monolingual teachers are not capable to teach English to bilingual Muslim children. Bilingual teachers are needed to teach English to such children along with their mother tongue. According to a number of studies, a child will not learn a second language if his first language is ignored.

The West has never been at ease with Islam since the Crusades. It is unfortunate that huge oil supplies lie under the Arabian Deserts. It is the West that stirred the trouble that led to 9/11. That attack was a desperate act of by men prepared to lose their life. We need to get to grips on who is the terrorist? On 24 November 1963, Lyndon Johnson said, “the battle against communism… must be joined… with strength and determination. Some three million lives were lost in the consequential battles. The US had to pull out due to Public Opinion. Communism lived on. So who was the terrorist?

The British establishment is wrong in thinking that Imams are to blame for extremism. Imams are not solution to the problem for extremism. Extremism is nothing to do with Imams. Extremism is not created from abroad, it is coming from within. Britain fails to help Muslim communities feel part of British society. Race trouble is being predicted by the Daily Express, because of an ethnic boom in UK major cities. Muslim communities need imams for the solutions of their needs and demands in their own native languages. Muslim parents would like to see their children well versed in Standard English and to go for higher studies and research to serve humanity. The fact is that majority of Muslim children leave schools with low grades because monolingual teachers are not capable to teach Standard English to bilingual Muslim children. A Muslim is a citizen of this tiny global village. He/she does not want to become notoriously monolingual Brit.

Terrorism and sexual grooming is nothing to do with Masajid, Imams and Muslim schools. Those Muslim youths who have been involved in terrorism and sexual grooming are the product of western education system which makes a man stupid, selfish and corrupt. They find themselves cut off from their cultural heritage, literature and poetry. They suffer from identity crises and I blame British schooling.

The shocking level of targeting of the Muslim community of Birmingham is indicative of the normalisation of the dehumanisation of the Muslims of Britain. Under the pretext of "extremism", criminal undemocratic and unethical abuse of public institutions and the Muslims of the UK can occur without much accountability. This pervasive attitude, especially amongst officials like Michael Gove needs to change. Our schools are truly trying to develop our children to do well at schools so later in life they are able to stand on their own two feet, but if we stop our schools from doing this than our country will have up rise of unemployment, benefit issues, crime levels high, I think its time for you apologize and allow practitioners to do their job right.
Iftikhar Ahmad

[fish5133]

[Iftikhar]

I am concerned with the education of British Muslim children who have been mis-educated and de-educated by state schools with non-Muslim teachers. Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods. There is no place for a non-Muslim child or a teacher in a Muslim school.

Don`t forget these Trojan Horse schools had excellent ratings from OFSTED , so what will change? Where these schools are situated often have religious community support after school activities, also, school governors are likely to come from the religious and social leaders of these communities, how will you stop their influence?? Twenty leading educationalists and Muslim leaders have questioned Ofsted's impartiality in the Birmingham 'Trojan Horse' affair, education consultant Robin Richardson reflects on the factors behind its controversial recent inspections.

Western media and politicians have been trying their best to propagate against Muslim schools. Muslim schools are even called Osama bin Laden Academies by a Teaching Union. Only less than 5% of Muslim children attend Muslim schools while more than 95% are in state schools to be mis-educated and de-educated by non-Muslim monolingual teachers. The demand for state funded Muslim schools is in accordance with the law of the land. Muslim community is not asking for any favour. State schools get appalling Ofsted reports as well. There will be good and bad state schools and good and bad free schools. Muslim Girls school tops state school rankings in Blackburn. Yet, the only news we get is about a failing school in Derby.

In many instances Muslim schools have raised the standard for pupils within the community, creating a safe and approachable environment for families who care not only about their children’s education, but their religious beliefs and continuation of cultural practices and morals. Since 2004 the national average of Muslims achieving a GCSE A*- C grade has increased drastically with the development of these schools, with pass rate figures rising from 25-30% for both boys and girls in parts of England, to 100% in particular Islamic institutions. The Brondesbury College for Boys in Brent is one such example, whose GCSE pass rates are 46% higher than England’s national average.

Muslim Schools are therefore setting the standards of all-round excellence and nurturing a new generation of high achievers throughout the country; allowing their pupils to excel in subjects beyond the schools’ Islamic focus. The number of Muslim schools, along with their successful pass rates, thus provide Britain with young educated Muslims, who will in turn, be in a better position to contribute towards Britain in primary fields of work.

Furthermore, if we look at the subjects offered by each of the six accused Muslim private schools, we notice that they do offer a variety of subjects which are not all solely based on Islamic teachings. Therefore the argument about not providing a broad and balanced curriculum is inaccurate.
IA
http://www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk

[ian neal]

Fair admissions for all

http://fairadmissions.org.uk/why-is-this-an-issue/the-law-on-admission s/

"I am concerned with the education of British Muslim children who have been mis-educated and de-educated by state schools with non-Muslim teachers. Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods. There is no place for a non-Muslim child or a teacher in a Muslim school."

Imagine in the following sentence I replace muslim with white or Klan so that it becomes....

I am concerned with the education of white British children who have been mis-educated and de-educated by state schools with non-white teachers. White children need state funded White schools with White teachers as role models during their developmental periods. There is no place for a non-White child or a teacher in a White school.


I am concerned with the education of British Klansmen children who have been mis-educated and de-educated by state schools with non-Klansmen teachers. KKK children need state funded KKK schools with Klansmen teachers as role models during their developmental periods. There is no place for a non-Klan child or a teacher in a KKK school.

Can you now understand why I and many others have a problem with segregated schooling? It was bs in 1950s Alabama and it's bs in 2014 in Tower Hamlets.

[fish5133]

[ian neal]

Google provides the answer

The comment was made in 2002 by Peter Smith, AST leader. Mr Smith retired from the AST in 2002 and died in 2006.

This is the context

"CHURCH schools should lose their power over admissions and be forced to take children from other religions, a teachers' leader said yesterday.

He warned that the Government's decision to encourage more faith schools risked the establishment of "Osama bin Laden academies" or "colleges of new messianic ethics" run by David Icke, the former goalkeeper, sports presenter and self-proclaimed son of God....."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4181326/Teachers-tell-church-sc hools-to-open-doors.html

Which is a million miles from what Iftikhar is claiming.

[fish5133]

Thanks Ian.

Rather the remarks of one man rather than the Union and somewhat sarcastic.

[outsider]

There is no doubt our schools are screwed up, intentionally, and getting worse. Agenda 21, Common Purpose, Government edicts, all co-ordinated to create hardworking, compliant Sheeple who buy what the TV suggests they need, and trusts their Government and Media. No dissent, no questioning, or your a trouble-maker, in need of 're-education' or medication.
See 'EDUCATION FOR THE NEW WORLD ORDER':
http://theunsolicitedopinion.com/education-for-the-new-world-order-2/

Notice it mentions 'No Child Left Behind', rolled out by George W. Bush, certainly a good example of an 'Educated Man' (not only went to Yale, he was a 'Bonesman').

In Atlanta, Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter recently sentenced eight teachers and other school officials to terms of 1 to 7 years, and 21 others to lesser sentences, under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act for 'cheating' in giving their pupils higher marks than they earned: ' Why Were Atlanta Teachers Prosecuted Under a Law Meant for Organized Crime?': http://www.thenation.com/article/205065/why-were-atlanta-teachers-pros ecuted-under-law-meant-organized-crime?

I sympathise with Iftikhar; if I were a Muslim, I would prefer my children went to a Muslim, bi-lingual school than to the 'Politically Correct', politically orchestrated Sheeple Factories that, if not already here, are on the way, at least in their younger years.

But I wonder, Iftikhar, where you gained your education? You seem to believe, against your Muslim brothers' right to be classed as 'innocent until proven guilty', with not a shred of hard evidence and despite masses of evidence to the contrary, that Muslim Highjackers were responsible for 9/11 under the orders of OBL, and that four Muslims were responsible for the 7/7 London Bombings.
You hopefully have SOME reason for believing these 'Blood Libels' against you fellow Muslims, other than that George Bush, Tony Bliar and the Main Stream Media said so; I'd love to know what it is.
An important thing about education is that 'one is never too old to learn'; in return for enlightening me on your reasons for believing the impossible re 9/11, how about you check out the following?:

http://patriotsquestion911.com/

"September 11 - The New Pearl Harbor":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1GCeuSr3Mk (in 3 parts):

'Zero': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XRMrMdn0NQ

'"Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" - VO ST FR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW9P6s1IbGA


If you continue in blaming your fellow Muslims for what was a diabolical plot to invade and occupy Muslim countries, with terrible loss of life, abominable Human Rights abuses, and smashing Muslim countries' infrastructures, leaving them hell-holes of fratricidal conflict, you will not be serving either humanity or your religion.

I don't know where abouts you live, but if you live near London, there is a presentation at Bloomsbury Baptist Church today by Richard Gage, leader of over 2,300 Architects and Engineers (mostly American) who say that Building 7 and the Twin Towers could not come down because of planes and fires; there is another presentation, and a play, at Elmwood Tennis Club, Holland Road NW10 5AJ on both 29th and 30th April (see our Forum calendar for further details).