Quaker education in a pandemic

Johan Mau­r­er starts with the recent pub­lic con­tro­ver­sy over Sid­well Friends but then trans­vers­es a long sweep of Quak­er school iden­ti­ty debates, includ­ing one at a parent-led school coop with which he was involved:

The one I remem­ber most vivid­ly echoed the West­town debates: how much overt Quak­erism is too much for a school that was already attract­ing non-Quaker fam­i­lies? After lis­ten­ing to some of this debate, Earl­ham’s Paul Lacey said to me, “Instead of being ‘in the world, but not of it,’ too often we Quak­ers are of the world, but not in it!”
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