We Need High Quality Sikh Schools

[KirpaProject]

This is an appeal to Sikh educational professionals and wealthy members of our community. Lets have a number of high quality Sikh schools in each city. We cannot rely on parents to bring up children with the right Sikhi values, instead lets get very well run, high standard Sikh schools which people will want to send their children to for a good education. Once in they should be given the sikh ethos and have it natural to them to mix primarily with Sikhs. What do you think? This is an instant solution to our youth problems in 90% of cases.

Go to any school nowadays and you will find that certain communities are totally dominating and outnumbering all others, while there are hardly any Sikhs. I myself, though living in a town with a large population of Sikhs was the only person with kesh in my whole year group throughout high school. Even other non kesdhari sikhs were a very small minority. I could tell by the behaviour of the others from Sikh families that I was the only one with strong background and pride at home.

Solution is feed our kids with Sikh pride and values and have them mixing with each other from the start and we are sorted. This we can pretty much guarantee if we have great schools from Primary (heck even pre-school) right up till 6th Form/College. Also, more Sikhs need to get into teaching.

Great example; Nishkam School Trust- they have a Nursery and Primary and are opening a High School and Sixth Form September this year. Not to mention its a very impressively run operation http://www.nishkamschooltrust.org/, just check out the site.

[chatanga]

we have the best educational setup in the world. The Gurdwara is the greatest university mankind will ever see.

Get Gurdwaras teaching properly and you will see instant solution.

[KirpaProject]

we have the best educational setup in the world. The Gurdwara is the greatest university mankind will ever see.

Get Gurdwaras teaching properly and you will see instant solution.

This is very true but we need our kids socialising with each other on a day to day basis. Yes half of the solution is we need to be teaching them, the other half is that our kids need to cultivate a strong community feeling among their own generation themselves. This is through natural social circles formed at school. Apart from the few blessed and truly religious kids destined for serious Gursikhi, there is no greater influence at that age but school.

There is also the simple fact that so many of our parents do not bother sending their kids to Gurdwarae, no matter how good the parchaar is. However if we set up excellent schools known for their high standard and results, even the most irreligious parents will have an incentive to send their kids to it.

[chatanga]

There is also the simple fact that so many of our parents do not bother sending their kids to Gurdwarae, no matter how good the parchaar is. However if we set up excellent schools known for their high standard and results, even the most irreligious parents will have an incentive to send their kids to it.

excellent point, also non-sikhs would be thinking of sending their kids to such schools as well. Help spread Gurmat.

[PAL 07]

we have the best educational setup in the world. The Gurdwara is the greatest university mankind will ever see.

Get Gurdwaras teaching properly and you will see instant solution.