More and more Muslims are turning to home schooling to educate their children, according to a piece in today's Times. In one school district in California, 40 percent of school-aged girls of Pakistani and Southeast Asian descent are taught at home. This exodus is partly due to disgust with American institutions — "Little girls are walking around dressing like hoochies, cursing and swearing and showing disrespect toward their elders" — and partly to fear of harassment — "We don’t want anyone to point a finger at us … to say that we are bad."
Unfortunately, neither of those worries is unfounded; but is pulling their children out of school the most effective way for Muslim parents to alleviate those issues? We say no. Segregation, self-imposed or not, is terrible for diverse communities, especially when the culture being estranged is already considered by many to be insular and frightening. Besides, oftentimes struggle begets progress:
Robina Asghar, a Muslim who does social work in Stockton, Calif., says the fact that her son was repeatedly branded a “terrorist” in school hallways sharpened his interest in civil rights and inspired a dream to become a lawyer. He now attends a Catholic high school.
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christians and jews do the same. religion is divisive like that. abadon god and we all can be friends.
Why is it that this site has quotes but no attribution? Who said the thing about American girls being hoochies and disrespectful? I aint saying thats not true but as a journalist, I need sources and this happens on this blog daily. I love yall but whatup?
Oh, snap! Stockton is my hometown. What the story fails to mention is that Lodi (ten miles north of Stockton) is an incredibly homogeneous town. It's mostly white Germans and Mormons, with Mexican migrant workers and their kids. In fact, a family friend was the first black principal in the town, and she had one black student in her elementary school - a school of several hundred kids.
Somehow, I suspect the lack of diversity and virulent racism has something to do with the homeschooling there.
And Stockton, while much more diverse, isn't really that much better.
Africa birthplace of mankind…i dont think so…say hello to your DADDY!!!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH…I KNEW IT!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23813443/
As a journalist and as a blog reader, Monica, you might want to click on hyperlinked sources for attribution. Subtle, but sourced.
LOL. Duh.
I'm personally against home schooling. I know there are valid reasons for a parent doing so, but I've never encountered one. It seems like it does more harm than good. Home schooled kids are always a little odd in some way….too grown for their own good, socially inept, etc.
No. 4 KILO says:
Africa birthplace of mankind…i dont think so…say hello to your DADDY!!!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH…I KNEW IT!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23813443/
Posted: Mar 26, 2008 at 9:43 pm
idiot. read the full article. it only talks about fossils in europe. there is no mention of africa. wtf is he posting this random shit for anyway?
…white people *rolls eyes*
blackmistressdiva,
Wow, what a broad generalization. So, do you think that an educational system that places everyone of European descent as being superior, and everyone else, inferior, somehow better? Where are these homeschooled kids you know of, because I know quite a few of them, and they're all well-rounded, respectful, and smarter than the kids in the local public school. I'd hate to be from your neighborhood, if it's that bad.