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About Us: Rationale, Inception and
Growth
Rationale
In USA, education is the
right of every child and the Government
has set up schools to ensure that right
is fulfilled. However, since the
Government has divested itself of God,
education that is offered in Public
schools is devoid of moral, spiritual
and religious values. They cater to the
secular needs only, whereas a human
being is both a temporal and spiritual
creation and needs abound in both these
aspects of the human being.
Hence Al-Iman School has
taken it upon itself to provide a
balanced education that caters to both
the needs: secular and spiritual.
Parents who feel the need to train their
children for the Here and The Hereafter
send their children to Al-Iman to ensure
that not only academically but morally
and spiritually their children attain
the ‘whole’ (secular) and ‘holy
(religious) values. The School is
accredited by the New York City and the
New York State Board of Education.
Inception and Growth
On the orders of
Ayatollah al-Khoei, Al-Iman School in
New York opened its doors to four
children in September 1990; with that it started an
evolutionary process that, within four
years, resulted in
the first
fully fledged Pre K-12 Islamic school in
North America. The growth from Kindergarten to
Grade School to Junior High to High
School can only be described as
phenomenal. Every year, between
1990-1994 several grades were added
simultaneously as applications poured in,
pregnant mothers registered their
children
and waiting lists grew by the day.
In September 1994,
Al-Iman School added the high school
component and in 1998 the first class of
seniors - a historic moment - graduated
to go to various reputable universities
and colleges such as Stony Brook, St
John’s, Columbia, New York University,
Baruch etc. in
the country. Since 1994, many an Al-Iman
Junior High School students sat for and
aced the Specialized Entry Examinations
to High Schools and Academies. Al-Iman
alumni can be seen inter alia, in
medical colleges, nursing colleges, law
schools and institutions of higher
learning and repute. |
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