Explain Why The Charlotte Islamic Academy

Opened in 1998, Charlotte Islamic Academy is Charlotte, North Carolina’s only official Islamic academy. Over the years it has moved from trailers, to a small building, to a larger more school-like structure. They are now facing the issue of moving again, and they do not know where to, or what may happen to the program. Charlotte Islamic Academy offers the same classes any elementary, middle or high school offers –from AP Calculus to intermediate English. The additions to the program are the electives where instead of taking the usual Art or Spanish class; the students will take Islamic Studies, Arabic, and Quran classes. There are different levels to these classes, ranging from one to four, each level increasing in difficulty and student proficiency. As a whole all the classes in the school are intimate, with each having less than twenty students. Despite the small amount of students in the class, there are not enough teachers to go around. Being Muslim is not a requirement to teach at the school, but not many non-Muslim instructors are interested in teaching at an Islamic institution where they may have to wear a headscarf or adhere to standards they may not agree with. Such as the
Our states are based off of inter-related communities, and without these communities our states would mean nothing. For that reason, participation in these communities in intersectional ways and emphasizing membership and solidarity are two of the most important aspects of citizenship. There is elitism and a man-made disconnect that occurs when we forget who these concepts are meant to be aimed for –the masses. In the case of the Islamic school, the masses are the students. While they are involved in the “political” aspects of school, they are disconnected from other important aspects that give life to the