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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does this have to do with her religion and her national origin?[/quote]

I'm a Sunni Muslim, and her religion is relevant for me because she's used it as a cudgel in her previous anti-Islam writings. She is a bad faith actor and does not represent us.[/quote]

Who cares what you think?  Her status as a muslim or your acceptance thereof is of no consequence here.  She's as much a citizen of the state as you are AND is a member of the TJ PTA AND a VA taxpayer.  Atif Qarni as a servant of the people has no right to block her from attending that meeting. Period. [/quote]

DP.  I'm going to hit the reset button and ask that you accurately describe exactly what Asra is being "prevented" from doing?  It's not like she hasn't been broadcasting her views on TJ for a long time.  If the Secretary is having a meeting to solicit some fresh views, there's no reason to think she should be an invited speaker.

If it's a question about attending a meeting subject to open meeting laws, I don't know how she could be banned from attending unless she was affirmatively disruptive, in which case she could be removed. [/quote]

Please read through this..  
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/09/10/pta-...education-secretary-on_ap.html
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"Qarni has barred the school's PTA from a participatory role in an upcoming “listening session” on the admissions issue."

"Qarni says he's bent over backward to hear from the TJ community, scheduling three different listening sessions for students, parents and alumni, and including TJ's principal and a TJ student on his task force. But he said including Nomani in the listening session would be divisive."

Nothing suggests this session is being convened to hear yet again from magnet school PTSA representatives whose outspoken views are already well known.

It's not like she doesn't have multiple platforms to continue to express her opposition to any meaningful reforms to TJ. [/quote]

So this:

The PTA says the diversity problem sh[b]ould be fixed by better preparing and supporting Black and Hispanic students in grade school.
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is not a meaningful reform??[/quote]

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