Many Muslims Turn to Home Schooling, NYT article?

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Re: Many Muslims Turn to Home Schooling, NYT article?

Don’t you cook for your father or husband and in future for your sons or do you eat outside everyday and don’t you keep your house clean?

It’s not that simple and if ur pakistani you’d know that very well. Not sure about here but at least in Pak, guys are never expeted to do a thing around then house. Even at a young age, when both are going to school, girls are expected to do more housework than boys. If I ever have sons inshallah, ill try to make sure they help around the house.

But in some cases, as in Ms. Bibi’s, the intent is also to isolate their adolescent and teenage daughters from the corrupting influences that they see in much of American life.
What’s wrong in protecting your daughters from corruption of the society?

By not letting them go to school, period? If you instill your children with proper values at the age when they are most vulnerable, they should be able to make the right decision when they are put into a certain situatoin (or how to avoid certain situations to begin with). Point being: they should be able to make the right decision themselves. Keeping em at home is never going to help them if and when they ever get out into the world.

In some cases, home-schooling is used primarily as a way to isolate girls like Miss Bibi, the Pakistani-American here in Lodi.
Above is the opinion of the writer of this article, lets see what the girl has to say herself:
“I do miss my friends,” Miss Bibi said of fellow students with whom she once attended public school. “We would hang out and do fun things, help each other with our homework.”
**But being schooled apart does have its benefit, she added. “We don’t want anyone to point a finger at us,” she said, “to say that we are bad.”
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So instead of trying to fight hte problem of racism and discrimination as indicated by Bibi saying she doesnt want people to point fingers and say they’re bad, the better solution is to just run away and hide instead of face problems head-on? ****

Some 80 percent of the city’s 2,500 Muslims are Pakistani, and many are interrelated villagers who try to recreate the conservative social atmosphere back home. A decade ago many girls were simply shipped back to their villages once they reached adolescence.
And this paragraph has nothing to do with homeschooling or homeschooling families.

“Home-schooling” is a “new” alternative to just shipping their daughters back to Pak when they hit a certain age.

Of more than 90 Pakistani or other Southeast Asian girls of high school age who are enrolled in the Lodi district, 38 are being home-schooled. By contrast, just 7 of the 107 boys are being home-schooled,
And?

Why just homeschool the majority of girls and a small number of boys? It’s the typical paki mentality, girls are to be protected and locked up while boys can go out and have fun and live relatively normal lives.

**“There is a tendency to make home-schoolers look like antisocial fanatics who don’t want their kids in the system,” said ****Nabila Hanson, who argues that most home-schoolers, like herself, make an extra effort to find their children opportunities for sports, music or field trips with other people. **

I totally agree with her, I’ll be trying to find and arrange as many opportunities as I can for my children’s social skills, exploration and fitness activities.

That’s good :k: its a tough job but its worth every bit of effort