A court in India’s most populous state has effectively banned Islamic schools by striking down on a law governing madrasas, weeks before a nationwide election that could further polarize the world’s largest democracy along religious lines.
They’re just pathetic excuses trying to get around laws to do with schooling, such as the national curriculum, not turning people away because of protected characteristics, etc.
Okay this seems a lot like projecting issues with modern Christian schools on religious schools as a whole.
Edit: I made a weird assumption in my head so let me correct myself: This seems like a uniquely Western problem (or maybe the Middle East is unique for not having it).
Oh that’s fair, then let me rephrase: This is an American (or maybe Western as a whole) issue, not something inherent the idea to religious schools themselves. At least as an Egyptian I’ve never heard of anything like this.
Okay let me correct myself: I think this is a uniquely Western problem (or maybe it’s a uniquely non-Middle Eastern problem Idk), because at least in Egypt this is not a thing, and in fact religious highschools (known as Azhar highschools) are notoriously hard because they teach you everything you’d be expected to learn from a typical highchool and on top of that the classical Arabic and other knowledge necessary for the student to pursue a degree in Islamic scholarship. This issue also seems like it’s tied to a uniquely Western attitude towards religion, so I’m not sure how applicable it is to Islamic schools given that Muslims have a completely different idea of religion and spirituality.
Out of curiosity, what brought you to lemmy and what interested you in it? I am a techie myself (I work in tech), and was always into decentralized stuff. I feel like decentralism doesn’t appeal to most Arabs though. What was it for you?
They actually are exceptional. In many countries, religious schools are not for the purpose of avoiding laws of curriculums. Some countries force the curriculum anyways, and said schools can only add their own. In some places, there’s not a hard rule to avoid.
Okay this seems a lot like projecting issues with modern Christian schools on religious schools as a whole.
Edit: I made a weird assumption in my head so let me correct myself: This seems like a uniquely Western problem (or maybe the Middle East is unique for not having it).
Any religious primary school in America has this issue. Religious universities less so but still problematic.
The Hasidic yeshivas in NYC are notorious for this. Out of 27 investigated in an 8 year long probe only 4 passed the minimal requirements.
There were “graduates” who never learned English, had no concept of science, no grasp of any history outside of biblical…
They passed a law in 2022 to require schools to pass minimal standards. There are more than a hundred of these schools in NYC.
It is unclear how effective the law has been.
Oh that’s fair, then let me rephrase: This is an American (or maybe Western as a whole) issue, not something inherent the idea to religious schools themselves. At least as an Egyptian I’ve never heard of anything like this.
Much like America isn’t exceptional, neither is christianity, nor are christian schools compared to any other religious school.
Okay let me correct myself: I think this is a uniquely Western problem (or maybe it’s a uniquely non-Middle Eastern problem Idk), because at least in Egypt this is not a thing, and in fact religious highschools (known as Azhar highschools) are notoriously hard because they teach you everything you’d be expected to learn from a typical highchool and on top of that the classical Arabic and other knowledge necessary for the student to pursue a degree in Islamic scholarship. This issue also seems like it’s tied to a uniquely Western attitude towards religion, so I’m not sure how applicable it is to Islamic schools given that Muslims have a completely different idea of religion and spirituality.
Nice to see someone from Middle East here. Do you know of any active communities or instances for our kind?
Nope. We might be too much of a rare breed here.
Out of curiosity, what brought you to lemmy and what interested you in it? I am a techie myself (I work in tech), and was always into decentralized stuff. I feel like decentralism doesn’t appeal to most Arabs though. What was it for you?
I’m a Reddit immigrant. After the API debacle I jumped ship.
They actually are exceptional. In many countries, religious schools are not for the purpose of avoiding laws of curriculums. Some countries force the curriculum anyways, and said schools can only add their own. In some places, there’s not a hard rule to avoid.
I went to a Jewish school in the UK, lol