Pal Buddhist School

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Pal Buddhist School has a strict anti-bullying policy. Our zero-tolerance approach to any forms of verbal, physical, psychological, and emotional abuse and all forms of gender, religious, sexual, or racial discrimination is emphasized by our commitment to developing respectful, disciplined, and honest young people. All school community members contribute to preventing bullying by modeling and promoting appropriate behavior and respectful relationships.

At Pal Buddhist School, all students, teachers, and parents are connected by an innovative cloud-based data management system called SENTRAL. Students can access their timetable, homework & assessment tasks, attendance, and school resources via a centralized online platform. Because it is cloud-based, they can view, submit, or retrieve class work using any connected device such as tablets, mobile phones, and laptops. Teachers can provide almost instantaneous feedback and easily share online resources hosted by Sentral. Likewise, parents can also view online their child's progress and interact with teachers as quickly as students can.

Pal Buddhist School is the first school in the region to implement innovative technology in our learning and teaching platforms. Do not go by tradition, nor by lineage, nor by hearsay, nor by scripture, nor by skepticism, nor by philosophy, nor by pedantry, nor by dogmatism, nor by charisma, nor by thinking, "the recluse in our guru," but when you know for yourselves:

"This idea is wholesome; this idea is praiseworthy, this idea is praised by the wise, this idea when takes up and acts upon leads to happiness and welfare," Then you should take it up and live it out. Our school is open to all people interested in the good life. Although our basis is early Buddhism, we are confident that our education approach is congenial to good people of all creeds. Buddhists of all traditions will feel a connection here as early Buddhism is the seedbed of all Buddhism types. Non-Buddhists will also be able to use the clear-headed rationalism of early Buddhism to clarify their own beliefs. By discovering Buddhism, all students are taught to become wise, disciplined, and compassionate learners.

Our school takes an approach to education that integrates the universal qualities of faith and wisdom, one that remembers and builds upon enlightened civilization through independent investigation, empiricism, and reason.

As such, we are not a religious school in the sense that we hold to any ideas based on pure faith and mere dogma, or in the sense that we use faith as a trump-card to reason. Instead, we are a School of Science in its most real sense: we aim to foster in our students a love of the pursuit of truth in all domains, the material and the spiritual, the discovered, as well as the undiscovered. We hold that truth becomes dead tradition and dogma unless we always strive to use the tools of empiricism and reason to discover and rediscover truth for ourselves directly.

The capacity for independent thinking, empiricism, and reason does not come from anything. It is sown, cultivated, and stabilized in the soil of all-round character development. As a Buddhist School, we use Buddha'sBuddha's teaching as a rich resource in this regard.

The Buddha taught both secular and spiritual knowledge. However, to guard against the institutionalization of blind belief, our approach is to keep a strict line between classes about secular knowledge (i.e., the knowledge that can be verified through ordinary experiences) such as maths, science, English, and meditation (as a form of body-mind exercise), and spiritual knowledge (i.e., the knowledge that cannot be verified by ordinary experiences) such as how to see the operation of karma over many lifetimes across the many realms of rebirth.

Our policy is to teach secular knowledge during school hours and offer spiritual teachings to our students outside school hours on a strictly voluntary basis. Siddhartha" was Buddha'sBuddha's birth-name. It means "One who achieves his own goals." The Buddha was an advocate of ambitious goal-setting, constant striving, and discipline for the sake of attaining one'sone's own goals.

Thus, while accepting each individual's different potentials, we raise our students the desire to be the very best person they can be. We celebrate high achievement in both academics and sport and hold to strict disciplinary standards.

We are also a School that encourages friendly competition. While ultimately, where we stand about others matters little – for how we stand about ourselves is what counts – it is good to engage in a friendly competition to bring out our best.

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