Islamic Schools Around Tooting, South London.

The rapidly increasingly number of Islamic schools in the borough of Wandsworth, especially Tooting, are on a high at the moment. As far as three Islamic schools have opened in a space of a few years which are openly advertising themselves to Islamic families to send their children there.
The series of primary and secondary schools have started where it will become easier for a child to get into an Islamic secondary school if they attended an Islamic primary school.
The issue here isn’t of the Islamic schools opening everywhere, but the fact that the state schools around that specific area are now being ignored. Areas such as Tooting are high populated with Asian Muslim families and the Asian culture can be identified on the streets of Tooting. The government funded schools in previous years had a very good reputation and great competition for children to get places. Whereas now, most families want to send their children to an Islamic school, regardless of the quality of education provided.

Is it right for Islamic schools which keep opening every month to be recognized by the government?

Daily Mail Article..

Non-Muslim students at Islamic

school forced to

wear headscarves

The hijab: Non-Muslim girls attending an Islamic school will have no choice but to wear headscarves

Female students at a new Islamic school will be made to wear head scarves regardless of their religion, it was revealed yesterday.

The Madani High School in Leicester will be required by law to accept 10 per cent of its 600 pupils from a non-Muslim background.

But girls who are not Muslim will still have to abide by a rule insisting all female pupils cover their heads as part of the uniform.

Assistant principal Zainab Elgaziari said he did not regard the demand as a problem – despite the ongoing row over Muslim women’s veils.

He said: ‘I can’t see why if a student wears a head scarf it should be an issue. It’s the same as a shirt or tie – it’s just part of our uniform.

‘We will welcome students of other faiths. Indeed, there will be a quota set down by the Government, and we will abide by these rules.

‘When you go to any school you know what the uniform will be. Like any school, we will have one – and in our case it will include a head scarf.’

The secondary school, a voluntary-aided state academy, will replace the city’s existing Islamic Academy when it opens next September.

Yesterday Leicester City Council said it did not believe the scarves would deter non-Muslim parents from sending children to the school.

Education spokesman Hussein Suleman, who is also a member of the school’s temporary governing body, said: ‘We have to find a balance.

‘Governors have to take into account the fact that 10 per cent can be of a non-Muslim background and use discretion where appropriate.

‘At the same time, parents have a right to send or not send their children to this school. I hope discretion will be used if there are any disagreements.’

The school, which is not expected to make boys cover their heads, was also backed by Suleman Nagdi, of the Federation of Muslim Organisations.

He said: ‘All Islamic schools have certain criteria for school uniform. I can’t see anything different about the criteria they are setting in this instance.’

{Islamic schools accepting children from different faiths and backgrounds, is this really going to work?}

Well Recognized Teaching Of Islamic Schools?

As a whole, are Islamic secondary schools not seen as having the same reputation as state schools?

When applying for colleges and sixth forms after GCSE’s, do you think most Islamic schools or just faith schools in general are not given the same importance as other secondary schools?

Increasing number of Islamic schools – Right or wrong?

The increasing number of Islamic schools opening all around Britain recently is extraordinary.The growing number of private Islamic schools are dotted all around the UK but mainly focused on the West Midlands and further up north places such as Bradford and Manchester. The main aim of these schools are to educate children about Islam and Islam’s history as well as core subjects such as Maths and English.Muslim families living in those areas and even parts of London nearly always have it in their minds that they would like to educate their children about Islam and make them learn and read the Qur’aan. Children as young as six, are usually put into after school classes where they would learn the history of Islam as well as reading the Qur’aan. You could say it’s more of a cultural influence but putting so much pressure on children that young isn’t really noticed.The head of Mosques who hold these after school classes have realised that parents are determined to send their children to learn the Qur’aan whether they like it or not. So by taking advantage of the situation, the Mosque as a whole decide to open a full-time school rather than having after school classes. This would evidently benefit them in one way only – an increase in the fees.

This obviously encourages the parents to send their children to schools like these which are classed as primary then moving on to secondary schools. Parents feel that their children will get the right environment and atmosphere of learning about Islam and having a good education at the same time.

I totally disagree with this. Why do Muslim parents feel that they need to remove their children from other state schools or separate them from other cultures and religions? This same issue could be argued with Roman Catholic schools, but recently, Islamic schools are encouraging as many parents as possible to send their children to Islamic schools, so it can be recognized by the government and be made into a proper government funded school.

This totally confuses me because having your children separated from other cultures and religions from the beginning will not build that same appreciation and respect for others when they grow up. Why do Muslim parents think that by sending their children to an Islamic school will probably make them more religious in the long run?

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