On November 3, 2025, I, along with 14 other Abington Friends School journalists, had the opportunity to attend this year’s fall conference put on by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA)....

Seth Schmitt-Hall started his technical theatre career in high school, inspired by a particularly wonderful teacher. Later, 11 years ago, he got picked to be AFS’s new technical theatre director. Since...

On my 15th birthday, I went to an estate sale and found three old bottles. I was curious where they came from and what purpose they had served, so I did some research. Through my research, each bottle...

If there are three words that every American high school student has heard in their history class, those words are “freedom of speech.” Included in every lesson plan is the assurance that this baseline...

The climate is becoming an increasingly important issue in the world. The issue has become even more apparent in day-to-day life: fall temperatures have become shockingly warm, leaves are noticeably less...

Picture this: you step foot into your house after a long day at school, only for it to look like it’s 10 o’clock at night despite the clock reading 5:30. For a moment, you question whether or not you...

At AFS, there are many different styles and tastes. With many economic changes in the world, those things that satisfy those tastes are becoming more and more expensive.  Between fitting in and standing...

Drew Benfer has been teaching at Abington Friends School for almost 20 years. In that time, he has had an outsized impact on the school, from coaching boys’ soccer to lending his room to the GSA. But...

Ashley Cleary currently serves as History Department Chair and Upper School history teacher at Abington Friends School in Jenkintown, PA.  Before teaching historical content through creating engaging...

Guns kill 125 Americans daily, and our national rate of gun homicide soars at 28 times higher than that of countries of similar economic status. For many, it can be hard to conceptualize the loss that...

You can’t miss Director of Libraries Toni Vahlsing; she’s easily recognizable by her large displays in the library and her props that are presented on the stage in the AFS productions. When I walked...

Passivity, compliance, peace: some might think that Quakerism is about skirting conflict and trying to resolve discourse in the quickest way possible. That couldn’t be further from the truth.  Quakerism...