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What Do FSS Students Listen To?
What Do FSS Students Listen To?
Meet Jason Symonette, New Art Teacher
Meet Jason Symonette, New Art Teacher
Philly Sports Championship Timeline
Philly Sports Championship Timeline
How Do Students Commute to FSS?
How Do Students Commute to FSS?
What do FSS Students really talk about?
What do FSS Students really talk about?
Philly Sports Championship Timeline
Philly Sports Championship Timeline
Featured Athlete: Nora Colgan
Featured Athlete: Nora Colgan
Friends Select Boys Soccer Team 2024
Goal for Friends Select Boys’ Soccer Team
Friends Select Girls Tennis Team 2024
Girls’ Tennis Team Had Too Many Players: How Did They Settle This Situation?
Sarah Kelly, New Varsity Field Hockey Coach
Sarah Kelly, New Varsity Field Hockey Coach
What Do FSS Students Listen To?
What Do FSS Students Listen To?
The Top 10 Most Charted Female Musicians
What Could Have Been by Sting ft. Ray Chen
What Could Have Been by Sting ft. Ray Chen
Fuzheado, Wikimedia Commons, No changes made.
Mortal Man: A Masterpiece
Sustainability-inspired artwork by students in Drawing, Painting, & Mixed Media I
Friends Select Student Art Exhibit Features Sustainability
Image generated using AI in Canva Magic Media.
Three Songs That Define My Senior Year
Saad Halal: A Community Favorite in West Philly
Saad Halal: A Community Favorite in West Philly
What Could Have Been by Sting ft. Ray Chen
What Could Have Been by Sting ft. Ray Chen
Fuzheado, Wikimedia Commons, No changes made.
Mortal Man: A Masterpiece
The Portal Comes to Love Park
The Portal Comes to Love Park
Frankly Falcon: How Does Fss Prepare You for College
Frankly Falcon: How Does Fss Prepare You for College
Scott Aaronson '24
Photo Series: Varsity Baseball
Podcast: The Breakdown Ep. 1, Philadelphia Eagles
Podcast: The Breakdown Ep. 1, Philadelphia Eagles
Sistah’s Chat: The Podcast, Deneen Young on the Need for Affinity Space for Young Black Women at PWI’s
Sistah’s Chat: The Podcast, Deneen Young on the Need for Affinity Space for Young Black Women at PWI’s
Podcast: Student Wellness and New Year's Resolutions, Feat. Natan Gottesman PhD
Podcast: Student Wellness and New Year’s Resolutions, Feat. Natan Gottesman PhD
Crossword: Musical Artists
Crossword: Musical Artists
Crossword: Fall
Crossword: Fall
Crossword: Happy Halloween!
Crossword: Happy Halloween!
Page Turner! A Book-Themed Crossword
Page Turner! A Book-Themed Crossword
Crossword: Guess the Upper School Teacher!
Crossword: Guess the Upper School Teacher!
Friends Select Student News Media

The Falcon
Friends Select Student News Media

The Falcon
Why Doesn’t Friends Select Offer AP Courses?

Why Doesn’t Friends Select Offer AP Courses?

Alden Karp • May 23, 2024

  In a world where over 70% of America’s 30,000 high schools offer at least one Advanced Placement (AP) course, and AP discourse dominates many elements of the college admissions process,...

Club Controversy: Students Now Limited to Four Clubs Total

Club Controversy: Students Now Limited to Four Clubs Total

Lily Brin • October 13, 2022

Friends Select Upper School administrators shockingly limited students this fall by only allowing them to sign up for four clubs. This new rule is instated as they aim to improve the mental health of...

Student Concern over School Strike for Climate

Peter Ryan, Staff Writer • March 19, 2019

At 12:00pm on Friday, March 15, a sizable portion of Friends Select School’s upper school community walked out of our front door with no plans to return until the Monday morning. Of course, that was...