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BREAKING: Friends Select Announces Purchase of Additional Classroom Space for Fall 2022

Peter Ryan February 17, 2021

Friends Select School has purchased a building at 1520 Race Street to convert to Upper School classroom space by the beginning of the 2022-23 academic year, announced Head of School Michael Gary at Wednesday’s...

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Friends Select’s Little Giant: Mia Cohen ’21

Peter Ryan February 17, 2021

Chances are, you’ll hear Mia Cohen ‘21 before you see her. Standing exactly five feet tall, Friends Select’s napoleonic softball and field hockey captain is not an obvious choice as a major presence...

2021 Virtual Auction: “Run, Walk, Bike, and Bid-Athon”

2021 Virtual Auction: “Run, Walk, Bike, and Bid-Athon”

Margot Schneider, Editor: Hard News & Sports February 17, 2021

In a normal year, the Friends Select Auction is a major community event: a time to dress up, enjoy the food and drinks, and bid on items to raise money for the community. Unfortunately, during the COVID...

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BREAKING: Investigation Confirms Bailey Allegations

Peter Ryan February 11, 2021

A special investigation conducted by Friends Select School and outside counsel confirmed that former P.E. teacher Ken Bailey committed multiple acts of sexual misconduct during his time as a faculty member,...

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BREAKING: School Testing Policy Updated

Margot Schneider and Peter Ryan January 27, 2021

Nurse Kelly Papianou announced a new ongoing testing policy as part of Friends Select School’s COVID-19 screening and mitigation plan in an email sent home to families on Wednesday afternoon. Following...

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Social Justice Week Returns to Friends Select for Second Year

Peter Ryan January 25, 2021

From Monday, January 25th, to Friday, January 29th, all Upper School teachers and students at Friends Select will participate in Social Justice Week. During this event, student-leaders from Clerks will...

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Victims’ Rights: Are the Consequences What We Intend?

Xaxa Smith January 12, 2021

On Election Day, voters in Philadelphia faced a ballot measure proposing the creation of an “Office of the Victim Advocate,” which would run out of Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration. Although many...

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Update: What Happened to Philadelphia’s Encampment Protests?

Peter Ryan January 11, 2021

In the wake of May and June’s nationwide protests against racial injustice, nearly two hundred Philadelphians established a temporary encampment on Fairmount Park’s Von Colln Field next to the Benjamin...

Spring Greeney: A “Hands-On” Approach to Teaching

Spring Greeney: A “Hands-On” Approach to Teaching

Margot Schneider, Editor: Hard News & Sports January 6, 2021

Spring Greeney, a self-proclaimed “curious, empathic introvert,” is Friends Select’s new 9th grade history teacher, the mastermind behind the Digital Archive project, and a huge fan of The Bachelorette. Spring...

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QYLC Comes to Friends Select

Peter Ryan December 21, 2020

Friends Select School will virtually host the Friends Council on Education’s annual Quaker Youth Leadership Conference from February 4th through February 6th. The conference, led jointly by English...

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BREAKING: Upper School to Remain Fully Virtual Until February 1st, 2021

Peter Ryan and Margot Schneider December 16, 2020

In an email sent to families this afternoon, Head of School Michael Gary announced that Upper School students will not return to in-person learning until February 1st at the earliest. Pre-K, kindergarten,...

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Among Us Fever Sweeps Friends Select

Asa Johnson December 16, 2020

Among Us, a video game developed by Innersloth resembling the party game Mafia, has recently gained traction worldwide. Since September, Among Us has led Apple’s App Store in downloads by a large margin...