The summary of discussion follows. He praised the Full Time School Committee for doing an admirable job. Finances and transportation were the main concerns. Iqbal Ahmad said that IAM was started as a reaction to Al-Huda. We are in competition with Al-Huda, and other Islamic schools, and that is not good.
Transportation is very important to a school.
If we do not provide transportation we will lose many students. Al-Huda is more successful because the school is their bread and butter and they are committed to it. We are not successful because we are not committed to the school. Instead of competing with other Islamic schools, especially AL-Huda, we should work with them or with a consortium of schools. We should ask Al-Huda to operate a school here at MCC as part of their school system.