Iftikhar

Salaam

Muslim schools are not only faith schools but they are also bilingual schools. We would like our chilldren to be well versed in standard English to follow the National Curriculum and go for higher studies and research to serve huamnity. We would like Muslim children to be well versed in Arabic to perform Islamic rituals and recite and understand the Holy Quran. We would like to see our children well versed in the community languages sploken by their parents. It will help them to keep in touch with their cultural roots and enjoy the beauty of their literature and poetry.

Brother Oz

If they want to learn Arabic or whatever at home, fine, but at a state-funded school they must concentrate on English. Too many Muslims speak poor English, and this leads to cultural seperation and ghettoisation.

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Slartibartfas

I think too that the focus definitely has to lie on English. I do however not think arabic should not be offered additionally if its wished. But those people have to learn good English skills. Learning Arabic is fine, but without having good English skills this will only lead them into misery and ghettoisation.

If their mother tongue is arabic anyway, this increases even more. Its extremeler more difficult to bring your second language to a high niveau than to do so with your mother tongue. That has to have of course be the basis for any consideration regarding languages in school.


The worst that could happen would be a so called "bilingual school were actually everything takes place in arabic, and on the rear is a little bit of English taught, that does not lead to a good English speakers. (I know that, just because someone learned for 5 years a foreign language, does mean not much. My French skills are simply embarrassing after those 5 years, simply because of my lack of commitment)

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