Switching Quran Academy Without Losing Your Child's Progress

The mistake that costs a month

Most families stop the old academy first and start looking afterwards. The new teacher then has no idea where the child is, so the first two or three lessons become an assessment. The child, who has already read those pages, reads them again and concludes that they have gone backwards.

Overlapping by two weeks avoids all of it. Free trial classes exist for exactly this, and there is no rule that says you must have left somewhere before you try somewhere else.

Write this down before you go

• The book and the exact page number, or the surah and the ayah.
• What the last teacher kept correcting -- a letter, a madd, a habit of rushing.
• Which days and times worked, and which ones your child was tired for.
• Anything the child found hard to say out loud in front of a teacher.

Four lines. Send them to the new teacher before the first lesson and the first lesson is a lesson.

What to check on the way out

• Notice period. Some academies want a month, some want none.
• Whether they hold a card, and whether stopping lessons stops the charge.
• Any fee already paid for lessons not yet taken.
• Whether the materials were yours or theirs.

Ask in writing, on WhatsApp or email, so the answer exists. Most academies are straightforward about this. The ones that are not are the reason you are leaving.

What a first month somewhere new should look like

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