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Why choose Friends Academy?

At Friends Academy, students learn from faculty and staff who model high expectations and serve as intellectual and professional role models. We approach education with ethical purpose to use our knowledge for social change, empowering students to realize their impact on the world.

What is the Friends’ Central Parent Support Group?

P.S.O.C. is a group of parents/guardians that work collaboratively with the Home & School Association to support families of color by fostering open communication between parents and the School. Our focus is to ensure that families of color feel empowered and included as equal members of the Friends’ Central community.

Who are the parents of students of color?

The Parents of Students of Color, more commonly known as P.S.O.C., welcomes you! P.S.O.C. is a group of parents/guardians that work collaboratively with the Home & School Association to support families of color by fostering open communication between parents and the School.

What is Friends’ Central doing for families of color?

Our focus is to ensure that families of color feel empowered and included as equal members of the Friends’ Central community. Some of P.S.O.C.’s work entails organizing social events, and helping with workshops particularly those focusing on issues surrounding race, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

What is the Home and School Association?

The Home & School Association is a vibrant and vital part of the Friends’ Central School community. The HSA links home and school by engaging our diverse and accomplished parent/guardian community in support of HSA events. Parents and guardians become a part of the HSA upon enrollment and may serve in a variety of ways; as a Co-Clerk, ...

What is P.S.O.C. in school?

The Parents of Students of Color (P.S.O.C.) have come together in the School’s belief that “each human life is uniquely valuable and interrelated one with another”. Our purpose is to foster more open communication within the school community between administration, faculty, staff, parents and children. We support efforts to develop greater understanding and an awareness of the needs and values of children of color and the empowering of children of color within the Friends Central School community as part of a unified whole.

What is a P.S.O.C?

is a group of parents that work collaboratively with the Home & School Association to support families of color by fostering open communication between parents and the School. Our focus is to ensure that families of color feel empowered and included as equal members of the Friends’ Central community.