Exam results are looming... it's like staring in to an abyss
I have no idea why Arabs feel the need to make school life so miserable...
Ask almost anyone living in an Arab country and I can almost guarantee they'll tell you how grim and arduous the school year is. It's a seemingly endless round of exams with not much time for studying in-between; which is why the students spend most of what should be crucial learning time, memorizing what they need in order to mentally regurgitate it back on the the page for their exams.
I tell myself, that at least they're studying in Arabic, at least they have a full hifdh programme at the masjid, and at least they're attending almost daily halaqaat...
However, as an ex-homeschooler I can see the effect that a state education has had on my sons, not my daughters...
Two of my daughters have never been to school, were home educated and passed their exams. One of them is still studying for A'levels.
The two younger girls are doing well and are ambitious about succeeding and getting good grades mashallah.
Boys it seems,find it harder to stay on the right track even when given every available means to make it easier...
Boys, the teenage ones in my life at any rate... exasperate me!
We have a two week spring break starting on Thursday... first we have to collect four sets of exam results from three different schools...
I'm planning some Tarbiyyah Islamia in my home during the holiday... it's time to pull some teens back in to line and get a bit more Islamically motivated inshallah....
Wish me well.... it could prove to be a bumpy ride!
I have no idea why Arabs feel the need to make school life so miserable...
Ask almost anyone living in an Arab country and I can almost guarantee they'll tell you how grim and arduous the school year is. It's a seemingly endless round of exams with not much time for studying in-between; which is why the students spend most of what should be crucial learning time, memorizing what they need in order to mentally regurgitate it back on the the page for their exams.
I tell myself, that at least they're studying in Arabic, at least they have a full hifdh programme at the masjid, and at least they're attending almost daily halaqaat...
However, as an ex-homeschooler I can see the effect that a state education has had on my sons, not my daughters...
Two of my daughters have never been to school, were home educated and passed their exams. One of them is still studying for A'levels.
The two younger girls are doing well and are ambitious about succeeding and getting good grades mashallah.
Boys it seems,find it harder to stay on the right track even when given every available means to make it easier...
Boys, the teenage ones in my life at any rate... exasperate me!
We have a two week spring break starting on Thursday... first we have to collect four sets of exam results from three different schools...
I'm planning some Tarbiyyah Islamia in my home during the holiday... it's time to pull some teens back in to line and get a bit more Islamically motivated inshallah....
Wish me well.... it could prove to be a bumpy ride!
you can do it babe...insh'Allah
ReplyDeletesalamu aleykum,
ReplyDeletei think it's very french this competition at school.
They are allways looking to be from the first three, and their life only beginns when they have holidays meskeens.
May Allah bless you in your motivation for these springholidays.
I'm looking forward to see my children play , run, do some bycicle: be kids!
How do you manage with all 7 at home mashAllah?
Do they have to help arround to be occupied?
I have a little trick: i tell my children that if they keep their room tidy all the long of the holidays i will sew them something!
last time it worked mashAllah (and gave me a reason to be off for some sewing, yay!)
salam
Yusra