Although there are variations in what the parents in this study want their children to become, the common goal of becoming a God-conscious person is present. They share the same goal, the same dream for their children. However, they differ in their understanding of how best to achieve this. Negotiating entangled and sometimes oppositional thoughts in education places AAM parents within the larger tradition of liberation education in the African-American community. An example can be seen by taking a look at the efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which was instrumental in the freedom schools movements. In their struggle to establish schools, some SNCC members were fully committed to open pedagogies, while others disagreed and even a fraction were indifferent (Rushing, 2008). Like the AAMs in this study, SNCC agreed on the big picture but not on the best way to get there. Imposing this understanding, perhaps the journey, in cultivating God-conscious children, is not as important as the destination. It is this destination that connects these two generations depending on the context from which they emerge. What I chose does not reflect what I want. Where will my girls (three daughters) go to school next year? This is a question I've asked myself every spring since they started school. I have two 4th graders and one 2nd grader, so you can count my years spent painstakingly revisiting this question. I have moved my children between three different schools in the last 4 years. For the first two years of school my twin daughters attended an African-American Muslim school. The school was 45 minutes from my house and the classes were outside of... middle of paper... institutional Press.Payne, CM & Strickland CS (2008). Teach Freedom: Liberation Education in the African-American Tradition. New York. Teachers College Press.Pedroni, T. C. (2007). Market movements: African American involvement in school voucher reform. New York: Routledge.Power, C. “The New Islam,” Newsweek, March 16, 1998, p. 34.Ray, B. D. (2009a, August 10). Research facts about homeschooling. Retrieved from http://www.nheri.org/Research-Facts-on-Homeschooling.html.Saltman, K. (2007). Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Destroying Public Schools. Paragon.Spring, J. (2010). American education. McGraw Hill Publishers, New York NY.The Islamic History Project Group (2006). A history of African American Muslims. WDM Publications. Wells, A. S. (Ed.). (2002). Where charter school policy fails. New York: Teachers College Press.