Educating for Diversity & Social Justice means...
Actively embracing the richness within our own community and the wider world, and helping children to challenge injustice in developmentally appropriate ways. We seek to empower children to resist stereotypes and biases of all kinds, through cultivating a positive and resilient sense of self and celebrating human diversity and community.
Our children are given daily opportunities to raise questions, discuss concerns, share their insights into the treatment and/or actions of each member of our community, and to offer their suggestions for making our community a better place. The progressive education movement has a rich history of fostering the virtues of democracy and active citizenship. We seek to continue this legacy through the daily conversations we have in our classrooms, the modeling our teachers do, and participating in a variety of community service activities within our local community.
We believe that exploring the tremendous diversity within our human cultural heritage not only enriches each child's appreciation for the beauty inherent in the world, but begins to prepare them to work collaboratively with diverse individuals and groups into the future. We seek to truly 'live our ideals' at QACS - being the change we want to see in the world!
Queen Anne Community School does not discriminate on the basis of race, family composition, gender, age, marital status, physical ability, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, national or ethnic background. We seek to promote diversity through the administration of our educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, or other school-administered programs. We believe that diversity enriches learning within our school and wider community, and therefore seek to promote and celebrate that diversity within our school.
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