I believe it is a waste of resources to pay for dugsi for several years of the child’s life instead of home schooling them. Now imagine paying for 5+ kids like the average Somali family. My father used to pay $60 per child per month for dugsi. I was a studious hafiz but I believe it was a waste of my time and my father’s resources. I still became ex muslim in the end. That money should’ve been used for more important matters. If your money isn’t elevating your family’s life wyd? If deen is so important to you, just teach them at home. Dugsi has never changed anyone’s life for the better. On the contrary, some people just walk away with frustrations or bad experiences.
I also believe it is idiotic that our parents don’t care about sports or extracurriculars and don’t prep their children for their futures. This could keep them off the streets. It is wasted potential our kids aren’t all enrolled in sports and extracurriculars. We could have prepped them for universities with a full ride. We could have had more olympic athletes by now. Our boys could have had mentors who could have guided them into excelling in academia. The only Somalis that I know who do extracurriculars are the ambitions ones. But these personality archetypes aren’t the majority.
Our families do hate when we assimilate. I have had friends and family members sent off to Africa for “acting white” or “too western”. If you show signs of assimilation, it’s over for you and they start thinking you’re gaal raac. It’s like they want to keep us in poverty with their ignorance.
They don’t know what it takes to succeed in the west. They are too focused on akhirah to care about the dunya. This indifference for the dunya has a negative effect on how they raise their children. It means they don’t care about the quality of our lives or our futures.