B. C. Muslim School

Rating: 4

Author: shaan khan

3 months ago

Good school with great Islamic values. Pros: - Islamic Environment - Good principal with values - The syllabus is also good and great thing is unlike public school, parents will know what our kids are learning in this school Cons: - Communication not properly organized, especially bus related communication. - There should be some strict moral upbringing. Some kids are too irresponsible and shows bad moral character. Not sure if teachers or parents at fault. But this is some serious issue.

Rating: 1

Author: nabb !

3 weeks ago

This school, terrible. The paycheck for the teachers is incredibly low, which is why all the good ones keep leaving. They also increase the fees by 2x each year, which basically robs the parents who work hard for their child's education. The students are also extremely uncivilized, and bullying occurs quite often. I've been studying in this school since 2nd grade, and I've been wanting to leave ever since. The councelors barely do anything tbh, and there's only one so the schedules are really messy.

Rating: 1

Author: minhal m

3 weeks ago

I don't know what other reviews with 5 and 4 stars are on about, this school is horrible. Would give 0 stars if I could. After 2019, the school started to go downhill (even though it already was the years before). You can ask ANYONE who attended during that time. The principals kept changing and they hire anyone who has just the slightest experience in teaching. They don't care if the students aren't happy with their teacher, they only care if they have a teacher, that's it. This school is strict for all the wrong reasons, for example, the uniform and dress code. Sure, it's an Islamic school, the dress code should be strict, but it was for the stupidest reasons. If you would wear baggy pants, they would dress code you and tell you that you shouldn't wear them. WHAT ELSE ARE WE SUPPOSED TO WEAR???? Tights? Skinny jeans??? Also, if you wore a hoodie in class (other than grad hoodies for seventh grade) without the teacher's permission, they would get mad at you and tell you to take it off. Same thing with wearing the hood of the hoodie/jacket in class. Teachers would claim it's, quote unquote, 'dangerous' as you might 'choke' (I kid you not, I once overheard a teacher say this to a student in my class when he was wearing his hood). Don't even get me started with the staff. They don't know how to take care of the students if they get hurt. My friend once was stung by a bee, and you know what they gave her? AN ICE PACK. No, it doesn't stop there, they don't even give a proper ice pack, they give you a plastic bag filled with two or three blocks of ice. My parents literally gave the school ice packs, but what did they do with them? Allah knows best. Look, I'm not saying you should give the students 'intense care' for their injuries, but they should at least care for them properly instead of sending them back to class immediately after giving them an ice pack and/or a band aid. The buildings are pretty run down, and the only thing the previous principal from last year did about it was fix the stairs. There was also an ant infestation at one point. Oh yeah, they didn't even care to fix the bathroom locks. Also, the hand soap automatic dispenser in the bathrooms literally, WALLAHI, they DOWNGRADED to push dispensers. And you want to know what the previous principal did instead of fixing everything? He decided to decorate his OWN OFFICE. I'm so done with this school. If you want to put your children in this school, take some advice from parents and students who attended this school, for example, me. They know how this school is, and how the staff and teachers act. Trust me, you do not want to ruin your child's life. Find another Islamic school for your child. TRUST THE ONE AND TWO STAR REVIEWS. Inshallah, maybe this school will manage to become better. Only Allah knows what's best. Overall rating: 1/5 (again, would give 0 if I could). Thank you for taking your time for reading this. If you do end up sending your child to this school, the only thing worth it would be the friends.

Rating: 1

Author: Younus Chaudhry

4 months ago

Not a good school at all. Kids are not being taught properly, basic manners are not taught. If the kids are bullying other kids or being rude, teacher don’t stop or take measures accordingly. Staff can also be rude at times, you can tell they are not professionally trained. Teachers get moved around a lot during school semester, for most of the school year it’s always substitute teachers covering. Very disappointed since our religion teaches us manners, ethic, kindness and this school is the complete opposite.

Rating: 1

Author: Zubii

5 months ago

Took my sister out from this school. We put her in for the school term of 2022-2023: Our first year in BC, we moved from Van-Richmond. Drop off was by a bus so the staff told us to be on the corner of No.2 Road and Westminster by 3:45pm but the bus actually arrived at 4:45pm? Oh also the drop off wasn’t “corner of the two roads” but it was close to the next street: Lynas. I had to run. I went and asked the driver what time should we be here? He said “I don’t know check GPS” since school started we didn’t get any email info abt an app GPS (requires user/pass) that tracks the bus, neither were we given this info by the school staff on call. Next day we know where to go but I’m at work, my mom goes to pick her up. She gets there around 4:25pm (we still don’t know about the app GPS) 4:25pm turns into 5:25pm and my sister is no where to be found. He dropped her without a guardian present! She’s 10! We’re new to Richmond and he dropped her 20 minutes away from our house, she doesn’t know the area! Apparently he dropped her off 5 minutes before my mom even got there! He didn’t even call us?! No calls on my moms phone, my dads phone of mine! You can imagine the panic. There’s no email that tells us what to do to contact the bus driver, principle nothing! I get in touch with the bus driver through another and guess what he says “it’s your responsibility, someone will call you” and hangs up. The principle calls me and instead of apologizing he starts asking about wether we spoke about switching stops for the drop off? (We wanted her to get dropped off closer to No 2 but the driver said no when I asked the first day) even if there was a stop change why would you drop off a 10 year old without a guardian present?! Next day: the principle made my dad and I wait for an hour. We both had to miss work to be there. I told him everything and he says we sent you an email with instructions to the bus drop off. I said “oh I didn’t get it” so he proceeds to show me he sent it or that our email was in the system. Guess what! THERE WAS NO INFO FILLED OUT IN THE SYSTEM. The staff didn’t put it in so he goes on to say “human error, it happens” so casually, it still pisses me off. Puts in our emails which was filled out on the forms months ago! That should’ve been in the system already! At the end of the convo he said the bus driver supervisor will call. Tell me why am I getting yelled by this supervisor when he calls me later,basically saying the bus driver didn’t have our numbers… I’m sorry and that is my responsibility? The driver didn’t even ask us for it on the first day… and the school should give him the number? I was so confused because the staff and the buss staff I don’t work together? He demanded I call the staff and tell them to give our numbers to him (he wouldn’t take it when I was telling him on the phone) kept saying tell the school staff….yeah. Different day: bus arrived early, my mom was 3 minutes away (she could see the bus as she was walking towards it) and she sees the bus driver keeps driving away. My mom confused calls me, I tell her “maybe you were late?” She said “no he just arrived but kept going” The principle told me “the driver called but nobody picked up” he my moms phone 3 times. I wish I could upload the picture because the phone number was wrong. it wasn’t even our number. I wish I knew this was just the start of their unprofessionalism, should’ve taken her out right there. There were many more incidents that happened. This was our first time putting her in a private Muslim school and last. Don’t waste your money and kids future on this school.