The Importance Of Religion In Schools

Register to read the introduction… Muslims send their children to public and private schools during the week and to Islamic schools in the Mosque or Islamic Centers on the weekend. The Islamic Centers or Islamic schools focus on teaching leadership skills, character, and growth and development of an Islamic personality. According to Syed (2001) we need to prepare the younger generation having leadership quality and not to be followers of alien ideologies but to play the role of torchbearer by their excellence in knowledge, character, and positive action.
Early childhood education programs focus on the role of the parent. Parents should read to their children every night and provide an Islamic culture and environment. Parents should choose schools that support this ideology. Audio-visual media such as TV, video games, movies, peer pressure could play a role in erasing the Islamic personality the parents are building and could influence the behavior of the children (Syed, 2001).
Muslims feel the best way to ensure the best education for their children is by homeschooling. Muslims feel the outside environment is in opposition to what Muslim children are being taught …show more content…
I do not think that major religious groups in the community should be able to mandate what is being taught in schools. Even though the top religions in the United States have some common beliefs, they still are very different. Who is to say which religious beliefs should be taught and how they should be taught? The Islamic religion believes certain information should be taught at home. The Christian religion believes that God created man and evolution does not exist, therefore, should this portion of science be eliminated from the curriculum? If we removed from the curriculum everything the religions do not approve, what is