Al Maali International School  

Al Maali International School in Abu Dhabi

School name	Al Maali International School
Type of institute	private K-12 school
Curriculum or Student Nationality	Arabic/US
Qualifications or Courses
Head of school	Khadija Al Sayar (Principal)
Executive body or owner
Date founded
Number of students (approx)
Number of staff (approx)
School location/area/map
Postal address	PO Box 42007, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Telephone	+971-2-6667661
Fax	+971-2-6664886
Email	maalicom@emirates.net.ae
Website
School fees structure	6,500-13,000 dhs per year (2006-2007)
Teacher salary range	2,000 - 2,900 dhs per month (estimate only, not confirmed)
Student satisfaction rating	from 76 votes. TerriblePoor Average Good Excellent
Parent satisfaction rating	from 17 votes. TerriblePoor Average Good Excellent
Teacher job satisfaction rating (by teachers, not about teachers)	from 30 votes. TerriblePoor Average Good Excellent

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Al Ma'ali International School tuition fee structure

• 2012-2013 fees information not supplied. Please send fee structure to education@dubaifaqs.com.
• 2011-2012 fees information not supplied. Please send fee structure to education@dubaifaqs.com.
• Registration fee AED 500.
• School offers Arabic curriculum grades K-11 and American curriculum grades K-9.
• School website at www.maali.sch.ae appears to be no longer available. Alternative or new domain not found or supplied (26 April 2012).

April-May 2012 - bullying incident at Al Maali School, resulting in victim in coma

• Media reports on 24 April 2012 said that a grade 7 girl was hospitalized in an intensive care unit, in a coma with a brain haemorrhage, after a group of boys at the school allegedly bullied her and beat her up (on Thursday 19 April 2012) after the victim reportedly apologised after being accidently pushed into one of the boys. The Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) is investigating the incident. The father of the girl also reportedly filed a case at the Musaffah Police Station.
• According to the Gulf News, the school is in Mussaffah (The Grade 7 pupil, who attends the Al Ma'ali Private School in Mussafah), but as far as we know, Al Maali School is in the Al Bateen area of Abu Dhabi.
• A report in The National on 26 April 2012 quoted the school principal, Khadeeja Al Sayar, as saying "These fights happen all the time. The boys were questioned by the police. After the officers made them understand the gravity of the situation, the boys still said they only gave her a box on the stomach."
• "... all the time ..."? Really? It's not clear whether the principal is trying to say it is acceptable for victims of bullies at schools to end up in an intensive care unit, or just that it's normal in the UAE (but as far as we know, hospital intensive care units in the UAE don't have a large number of school bully victims in them).
• 27 April 2012 - Gulf News reported with the headline "Principal pleads for errant pupils accused of bashing Loujain", quoting the principal as saying about the boys "They are now scared and depressed because they had been identified online and are being harassed daily". The report did not say if the principal thought the victim was also scared and depressed (the victim had also been identified online and in print), although that might be difficult to know at present since the victim is still apparently in a coma. Nor did the report say if the principal agreed with the apparent Gulf News implication that she seemed to be sympathetic to the bullies but not to the victim.
• 27 April 2012 - The National reported that the victim had an underlying medical condition which meant she was more susceptible to a brain haemorrhage if she was beaten - had a condition called arteriovenous malformation (AVM), said Dr Hasnain Haider-Shah, a consultant physician of interventional radiology at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City. Dr Haider-Shah said [name removed] also had a pre-existing aneurysm, an enlarged artery caused by a weakened blood vessel. The doctor was quoted as saying "The slightest amount of trauma could have caused bleeding, and the degree of injury on the soft tissue indicates the attack may not have caused this much bleeding on its own, but acted as a trigger."
• 08 May 2012 - ADEC reportedly issued a statement (not supplied) which said "As provided in related laws and regulations, if findings show that any school failed to provide the required type of monitoring, inspection, safety and security required, ADEC has the right to take all necessary steps as stipulated in the current laws and regulations and it may get to the closure of such school according to the magnitude of the violation committed by its management." The statement didn't say how that would help the victim, reform the attackers, or benefit all the other students and staff at a school if it was closed down.
• 08 May 2012 - in response to news reports about the ADEC statement, the school principal was reported as saying "We're not the first or the last school that had an incident like this. Similar incidents have taken place in other schools, and they have not been shut down, nor have they attracted such media attention." (The National), and "I do not think that the school will be shut down as such incidents are not unique to us but rather take place in various levels in every school." (Gulf News). Apparently the principal has more information about how frequently school playground fights in the UAE result in participants ending up in a coma in intensive care in hospital, than ADEC or the media do, so it is understandable she feels somewhat bewildered as to why her school is making headlines while the others aren't. However, we can't find information about other similar incidents so we don't really know how often schoolyard bullies have beaten victims badly enough to send them to a hospital intensive care unit in a coma in the UAE.
• 10 May 2012 - the assault victim has reportedly gone home, and is conscious and recovering.
• 09 Sep 2012 - Gulf News said that The family of Loujain Hussain claims that she was refused admission for the new academic year at the school where she was attacked by bullies in the schoolyard earlier this year. Gulf News said they were unable to get a comment from the school, and the report didn't really say why the girl was refused admission, but there was a quote from Mansour Lootah, a lawyer at Pan Globe Advocates and Legal Consultancy, who said "Legally, the school has no right to deny Loujain enrolment in the school. The parents now have to go to the Abu Dhabi Education Council (Adec) in order to resolve the issue".
• 10 Sep 2012 - further to the question of the girl being readmitted to the school a confusing report (or a report about confused officials from ADEC) in the GN first said The parents of school-bully victim Loujain Hussain will meet this Wednesday with Adec officials to determine whether the child will return to the school where she was attacked. Representatives from the Abu Dhabi school will also attend the meeting, an official from Adec confirmed to Gulf News. But then in reference to the family's claim the school is refusing to re-admit her, the same report said The school have refused to confirm or deny the family’s claim. However, an Adec’s official said the family’s claim is untrue, despite Loujain being out of school.
• 15 Sep 2012 - Gulf News reported that the Abu Dhabi Criminal Court had issued its verdict on for the bullies. Mansour Lotah, the lawyer from Pan Globe Advocates and Legal Consultancy, who is handling the victim's case, was quoted as saying "The court has issued a warning to the boys for their actions and asked their parents to sign a pledge which calls for expulsion of the boys from the school in case they make the same mistake again." It wasn't clear from the report if that meant they would be expelled if they just bullied someone again, or if they had to put their target into hospital in a coma and cause brain damage and blindness, as was the case with their previous victim.

04 October 2006

• Al Maali International School (AMIS?) website difficult to navigate, address or location details not found.
• Year of fees information not confirmed.
• Also referred to as Al Ma'ali International School, Al Mali School, Al Maali Private School, Maali International Private School, etc.

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