Ayman Ismail
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We were living in Newark, New Jersey, where I live today.
And the tuition, I think, was around $6,000 per student.
And they had four kids, so they're talking about four students.
And this is full-time?
This is full-time school.
It's not Sunday school?
So this is like a K through 12 school.
So it's all the way up to the end of high school to college.
Academically, it's pretty good.
But at the same time, we really got to learn Arabic.
And we also really got to understand not really the spiritual side of the religion, but the mechanics.
And at the time, I was like, this is so dumb.
Why are we learning to put one hand over the other?
Does God really care if you put your left hand over the right hand?
We were learning that side of it.
But as I got older, I think, I finally am at a point now where I've found the meaning in all of those years of being in Islamic school.
All of that money, all of that pain and arguing.