Islamic values based schooling initiatives are a sore need only partially fulfulled. We will miss it when our elite schools teach our kids to celebrate Valentine's day, Mother's day, Father's day, Halloween etc and to party and booze rather than to understand our core values.
Most Islamic values are left only to be imparted from home. Simply take God out of any public forum and say religion is a personal matter only to be practiced in seclusion. Sounds okay on the face of it. But if you value an Islamic lifestyle please do not take it for granted. It will not stay around unless you nurture it.
A school teacher canceled her studies and told her students to make Valentine's Day cards just because most had no plans to mark this day in any special way and some didn't even know what it was. That was a personal experience almost two decades ago. Now it seems Pakistanis are the ones who invented Valentine's Day!
It's okay to laugh - provided you also have a tear in your eye.
If the aim is to balance the input to a child's intellect, this is anything but. Somehow the secular viewpoint ends up condemning Islamic values in nothing less than extremist fashion.
Deen itself is the balance so I don't agree with the concept of balancing deen and dunya. One is environment we live in and the other is a code showing how to live in it. If you think this is an oversimplification, try 'balancing' your life with twelve hours of seeking wealth and pleasure and then twelve hours of religion each day.
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