Despite this being her first year at SSFS, Rebecca Missonis is no stranger to both the world of education and Quaker values. Having spent 20 years teaching at The George School in New Jersey, where she...
Ella Gincherman, Staff Writer/ Junior Editor
• December 16, 2021
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect going into this year’s Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC). I have attended quite a few conferences over the course of the pandemic, all with a leadership...
It is the general consensus among the American public that children belong at school. The benefits are seemingly endless: receiving an education, being safe and protected, and acquiring the skills necessary for success and prosperity in the future. Yet so often is it taken for granted that children are able to get to school at all; so ingrained is it in the routines of most American school children and their families that the bus will pick them up from their streetcorner in the morning, deposit them at school, and drop them home again in the afternoon. But what are the benefits for the bus drivers?
I have experienced that hybrid school can have an isolating effect, and I often wonder if my peers have similar feelings about this year. To get a better sense of how SSFS students feel, I asked various highschoolers about their thoughts on whether creativity and collaboration have been stunted or expanded during this hybrid learning period.
Have you ever been in an extremely challenging situation when you struggled? A situation where you needed the help of a friend, a teacher, or someone else around you? In real life, people sometimes choose not to ask for help at all. But why?
Coronavirus outbreaks are now a huge difficulty to be faced all over the world. From the beginning, it spread rapidly in Wuhan, China, and now more and more people around the world are infected with the coronavirus, COVID-19. I want to share my own perspective as a person growing up in Wuhan.
