Curriculum and Discipline
Steve Coll, author of The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century, said that in the 1960s and 1970s Al-Thager "prided itself on its modern curicculum" and that it was the only Saudi school that "could even begin to compare itself to a place like" Brummana High School in Brummana, Lebanon. During that period the school had English instruction provided by many foreign English teachers from England and Ireland. Al-Thager, like other Saudi schools, had religion as a core component in the instruction. At noon, the boys performed zuhr, the Islamic prayer at noontime. Each morning, the school prompted boys in a military-style call of order to assemble in rows. Teachers had canes, and disciplined boys by striking their feet.
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