Admission — Join ShiaEdu

I put off enrolling my daughter for almost a year, not because I doubted ShiaEdu, but because I'd built the whole process up in my head into something complicated — forms, interviews, some kind of assessment I wasn't sure either of us would pass. I remember sitting with my laptop one evening, fully expecting to spend an hour filling things out before I even got a reply.

What actually happened was a WhatsApp message back within minutes, a friendly voice note asking a few simple questions about my daughter's age and whether she'd read any Quran before, and a trial class booked for two days later. There was no test to fail, no form longer than a sentence. The "admission process" I'd been dreading turned out to be a conversation.

Her trial class happened on a Tuesday evening after school, and by the Thursday we'd already picked a course and a regular weekly time. I keep thinking about how many months I lost simply assuming it would be harder than it was. If you're the parent who's been meaning to "look into it properly" for a while now, I promise the actual first step takes less time than reading this note did.

— A ShiaEdu Mother, Sydney, Australia