Don’t go to Bahrain’s private schools, hang on, don’t try that anywhere in the Arab world! You will just do yourself a disservice.
An Arab man's attempt at bridging the cultural gap and trying to make a difference. Failing a lot. Succeeding once in a while.
Don’t go to Bahrain’s private schools, hang on, don’t try that anywhere in the Arab world! You will just do yourself a disservice.
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Learning Arabic?
In a way its true but …
[quote]Anyway, just with a quick look at his book, I was shocked with what I saw. It is full of spelling mistakes, out of context words and last but not least, completely irrelevant sentences to the pictures. However, everything is marked with teacher’s red pen; CORRECT!?![/quote]
its not just the school they r ur children for god sake ! u dont know whats goin on in their books !! u just found out now when he was preparing 4 his 2morrow exam, its ur job to be with him step by step, I know what u would say ” [i]we pay a lot of money 2 the private school to educate our children [/i]” it just doesnt work the school it self.
look after ur children b4 blaming the school.
Hashem
Learning Arabic?
Heshem
With all due respect please spell out the words and don’t use numbers for letters or words.
Learning Arabic?
Until the standards of both government and private schools reach equilibrium (unlikely to happen anytime soon), those who can afford it will always turn to the private sector.
Re: Learning Arabic?
Although it is true that you need a partnership between the school and home to ensure that children get a good education, the sad fact is that parents are too busy to dedicate a lot of their time further educating their children. But they sure should monitor their children’s progress and at the very least look at and sign homework diaries.
I think there is no way that a parent can “be with him step by step” which is rather impractical. Also, in Haitham’s case, he is completely within his right to question the teacher who unjustly seems to liberally use the tick mark without bothering to read what the child has written. This is a serious lapse in judgement not on the parents’ side, but fully on the teacher and the school.
I fully support Haitham in that we pay good money to these schools because we know that they are better standard than government schools. And in this particular instance, and because of this brain-dead teacher, we’re not getting our money’s worth.
So please don’t jump to conclusions Hashem, I personally know Haitham and know what he’s getting at and he is the very last person to be negligent as far as his children’s education is concerned.
The school erred in a major way here and I hope that Haitham will take this issue with the school’s management to get that teacher to pull her socks up, or be justifiably fired.
Re: Learning Arabic?
How interesting! I have no problem with teaching you or anyone else the coloqual Bahraini Arabic (both versions!) and am proud of both. It is the teaching of classical Arabic that I have a problem with because I’m not good at it!
I agree with the second, I too know some European and Far Eastern parents who have actually gone to the school to request their children learn Arabic as a foreign language (which is taught) but were refused, because they preferred the children to do modern languages like French and German so they can sit that GSCE exams in them, rather than Arabic.
But it is a very must lost and perfect opportunity to teach the language. I am surprised that the Bahraini government does not insist on at least teaching everyone at least rudementary Arabic. Doesn’t the Emirates do that?
Re: Learning Arabic?
Hashem,
Before you get fever and start giving me lectures how to raise my kids, do you know what type of school they go to? I guess not.
The kids are in “Day Boarding School.: Which means they leave early morning and comes back 4pm. They do everything in school, even there home work. They don’t carry back with them any book, except when they have exams so we can help them review. And that is monthly bases.
On the other hand, yes I have the right to blame the school. Otherwise, why would I pay for them if they are not doing their job? Can you blame the parents if they are working all day while we trust the school, is a school? Otherwise, why would I send them to school?
Logic man!
Learning Arabic?
I do agree that we have a problem with private schools regarding teaching arabic, but Mahmood you shoudnt generalise all private schools, i have been to two private schools in Bahrain, one till my o-levels and achieved the i.b diploma in the other, but both had a very strong arabic-teaching staff and am very proud of my arabic both written and verbal.
Luder.
Re: Learning Arabic?
Yes of course you’re correct, and I’m wrong in generalising. I myself have attended an Arabic-based private school (the American Mission School) and their Arabic was indeed very good as was their teaching staff and methods.
However, looking at the Arabic staff as far as my childrens’ school is concerned, they’re less than what I expect them to be and they have a very high turnover of Arabic language teachers that continuity suffers. In addition to that, their syllabus needs modernising and brought in-tune with other subjects, rather than once again depend on the three Rs as a teaching method.
Learning Arabic?
haitham
[quote]Before you get fever and start giving me lectures how to raise my kids, do you know what type of school they go to? I guess not.[/quote]
am not giving you any lectures or what ever mate .. the point is i dont like the way you think … you think with the money you can buy every thing because u pay money you dont want to do any thing.
well the teachers are stupied .. am paying them they have to be perfect .. but what am saying is pay some sttention to your kids give them a bit of time ” and if you dont like the school you can always take your children out WELL YOU HAVE THE MONEY YOU CAN DO ANY THING.
mahmood
[quote]I think there is no way that a parent can “be with him step by step” which is rather impractical. [/quote]
what i meant .. is not the the exact meaning of step by step .. just a bit of time, 15 minutes a day OK you guys busy making money 10 mintues.
[quote]With all due respect please spell out the words and don’t use numbers for letters or words[/quote]
OK 🙂
Hashem
Learning Arabic?
Whilst on the subject….
1) It is virtually impopssible to find a bahraini who will teach you amiyya. Why? Ashamed of it? It’s not the Prophet’s (pbuh) Arabic? I dunno
2) I know many European parents who would love their children to be taught Arabic at school but private school, policy is that it is available only to Arabic kids.
Johnster
Re: Learning Arabic?
Hashem do you have children?
If you do and you apply what you preach then your children are indeed privileged to have the best father in the world.
If you don’t. Wait until you do and then I hope you revisit this topic and tell us about your experiences. I can bet whatever money you wish to put down that you will change your mind drastically.
As to the crux of the problem, education here sucks, big time, and the Arabic/Islam teaching and syllabi suck even bigger. Their teachers are much to blame for making dry subjects even drier and most uninteresting to young and old alike.
Re(1): Learning Arabic?
After I complained and with little follow up, [b]the teacher was fired[/b]. Seems she had a bad history. Good for the students.
Re(2): Learning Arabic?
EXCELLENT! NOTHING gets done if you’re not passionate about it and if you don’t do it yourself. Well done. Now the children should at least have a better chance at learning Arabic.
This actually reminds me of a story a friend of mine experienced in a restaurant in the States:
My friend frequented a restaurant in Miami when he and his family took a brake from the Cayman Islands. My friend and the restaurant owner become friends, and in one of their conversations the restaurant owner told my friend that he hated English patrons!
Why? My friend enquired – who was English!
The owner said: If you ask the English if everything is ok they will invariably say “yes” even though there might indeed be something wrong with the food. You will never see them again, but you can be sure that immediately they walk out of the door they will start bad-mouthing you, thus impacting your business negatively.
But, American tourists are quite the reverse, they will haul you over, complain about what it is they took umbrage with and demand that it be corrected. They will leave, but will come back to ensure that whatever they complained about remains fixed. If it is they will be your customer for life and will tell all their friends about how good you have become, thus impacting your business quite positively.
What you did Haitham is the second, and I hope that the school appreciate what you did because with that act, it increased their quality.
Learning Arabic?
[color=red][/color]i really would like to learn how to speak and write arabic email me where i could learn the language 0cean_withlove@yahoo.com. thanks
Hello
My name is Aamir Ahmad. I would love to learn the quranic arabic and learn arabic as a language as well lear more about Islam.
Can someone hepl me. I’m livin in bahrain. E-mail me ahmad.aamir@gmai.com
Thanks
Aamir Ahmad
💡 Shalom aleikam I would like to learn arabic as well as inscribe it into my history.
salam