Subject: Quaker Notes: Head into the Woods
From: "Sidwell Friends School" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 13:00:54 +0000

March 10, 2019

On Tuesday evening, March 5, representatives from our 5th and 6th grade Choral Arts Program performed at the 17th Annual Independent Schools Choral Festival at Washington National Cathedral. This year, the concert brought together over 400 students from seven local independent schools, with our Sidwell Friends choir contributing 65 singers.

Get Your Tickets for the Upper School Musical Into the Woods
March 15–16 at 8:00 p.m.

March 17 at 2:30 p.m.

Join us for an enchanting and touching performance of Into the Woods by our Upper School students. To reserve tickets, visit sidwell.edu/boxoffice.

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Dear Families,

As Bryan shared, our community experienced the use of racist and anti-Semitic language by an Upper School student or students this past week. As a School, we hold dear our values of kindness, equity, compassion, and justice, and, as Bryan said, hate clearly has no place in our School.

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Dear Middle School Families,

We spent time this past week reflecting on our community, its capacity for greatness and love, the ways that we as individuals add to the collective value and beauty of SFS, and also the feelings that occur when there are transgressions within the community that move us in the other direction.

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Dear Friends,

This has been a very difficult week for our community as we have tried to grapple with the appearance of hateful language and anti-Semitic symbols at a recent student assembly. As Head of School Bryan Garman noted in the letter he sent home to all of you, there is no place for hate in our community. Hateful language and symbols will not be tolerated.

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Friends:

Really good coaching is consistent, a long-term effort that often goes without day-to-day recognition or much fanfare. Only after something tremendous happens, do we tend to examine how a team came to find such great success.

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Sidwell Friends School

3825 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016 | www.sidwell.edu

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