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    After Months of Virtual Learning, Friends Creates Hybrid Option
    Daniel Porteous
    • Dec 14, 2020

    After Months of Virtual Learning, Friends Creates Hybrid Option

    After a virtual start to the school year, October brought Friends a stirring new school schedule in the form of 'hybrid learning.' This p...
    41 views
    From Technology to Tents, Students Return to Campus
    Erin Nicolson
    • Dec 14, 2020

    From Technology to Tents, Students Return to Campus

    In October, around 300 Friends School of Baltimore Upper School students returned to campus, attentively making their way through the one...
    85 views
    COVID's Impact on Transitioning 9th Graders
    Sam Wu
    • Dec 14, 2020

    COVID's Impact on Transitioning 9th Graders

    Transitioning to the Upper School at Friends is usually an exciting time with lots of change. There are many more freedoms, responsibilit...
    44 views
    New Club at Friends: Dungeons and Dragons
    Sam Gerardi
    • Dec 14, 2020

    New Club at Friends: Dungeons and Dragons

    From high elves, to aasimars, to dwarfs, everyone is talking about the new D&D club. Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) is a new club in the Uppe...
    18 views
    Pandemic Performing Arts
    Krisna Kumar
    • Dec 14, 2020

    Pandemic Performing Arts

    Covid-19 has impacted schools in every way possible, from Zoom classes to major events being canceled. Caught in the midst of this pandem...
    19 views
    Friends School Students Make a Difference During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Johan Shattuck
    • Jun 2, 2020

    Friends School Students Make a Difference During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Needless to say, this has been a hard time for everybody. No matter if you’re a student or not, the coronavirus has affected everyday lif...
    105 views
    Henry Geller
    • Jun 2, 2020

    Friends STRIDEs for Enhanced Remote Learning in 2020-2021 School Year

    While many of us are hopeful that we will be back on campus come late August, it is important to know that school will probably look diff...
    82 views
    Charlotte Martin
    • Jun 2, 2020

    The Lasting Impact of COVID-19 on Friends School Seniors

    From freshman year (or earlier), Friends School students look forward to the special events of their senior year, like the first day of s...
    54 views
    Quakers Finish Fourth at MathCounts Chapter
    John Watt
    • Jun 2, 2020

    Quakers Finish Fourth at MathCounts Chapter

    The Friends School MathCounts team of Noah Ripke (‘24), Xander Dickens (‘24), Ira Geller (‘24), and Macy Goldberg (‘24) placed fourth in ...
    71 views
    Luke Rollfinke
    • Feb 11, 2020

    Sounding the Alarm on Fire Drills

    With the 2019-2020 school year well underway, students at Friends have noticed an interesting trend: more fire drills have occurred this ...
    64 views
    Molly Gantt
    • Feb 11, 2020

    Lack of Diversity on SFDC Daunts Black Students

    Nobody enjoys going before the Student Faculty Disciplinary Committee (SFDC). But it’s worse for African American students than others. “...
    81 views
    Chris Herren: The Reality of Drugs and Alcohol
    Sophie Soltanian
    • Feb 11, 2020

    Chris Herren: The Reality of Drugs and Alcohol

    To help students understand the devastating effects of substance abuse, Friends brought in Chris Herren, a former NBA player whose basket...
    59 views
    Figments: An Entertaining Imagination
    Charlie Wayner
    • Feb 11, 2020

    Figments: An Entertaining Imagination

    Once again this November, the Friends School Theater Program amazed audiences through unforgettable performances and skilled directing. B...
    25 views
    Inside the Maker Space: Meeting for Whittling
    Nicola Higgins
    • Feb 11, 2020

    Inside the Maker Space: Meeting for Whittling

    The makerspace is mostly silent, with the exception of a few whispers or giggles exchanged between classmates. It smells like constructio...
    18 views
    Sammi Mosk
    • Feb 11, 2020

    Is Friends Worth the Commute?

    The Friends School of Baltimore is one of many schools in the Roland Park/Baltimore area that draws kids from far and wide. According to ...
    67 views
    Luella Rubin-Wylie
    • Feb 11, 2020

    Understanding the Struggle of Test Anxiety

    Students these days are increasingly suffering from test anxiety due to the immense pressure put on them by their school, parents, or eve...
    16 views
    Julia Parker
    • Feb 11, 2020

    Talking About Change: The Substance Abuse Policy

    For many years, Friends addressed student behavior around drugs and alcohol with a substance use policy that was mostly punitive. But thi...
    43 views
    Club Spotlight: Film Club
    Alexandra Harner
    • Feb 11, 2020

    Club Spotlight: Film Club

    On a busy December Monday, the Upper School poured out of its day four collection as clubs scrambled to assemble and students scrolled th...
    29 views
    Quaker Quill Editors
    • Feb 11, 2020

    Academic Alerts Degrade Students

    It is no secret that the Friends School community is filled with students who are worried, pressured, and stressed about their grades. Ac...
    38 views
    Meet Robotics
    Lewei Tang
    • Feb 11, 2020

    Meet Robotics

    Under freshman hall, there’s a place that’s noisy and crowded every Friday after school. There, in the Makerspace, students gather to exp...
    13 views
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