September 2023 classes are forming at Lancaster Friends School, and grant money is available for educational projects which support equality, peace and other Quaker values. The Quakers believe that there is something of God in everybody, and each human being is of unique worth. This is why Quakers value all people equally and oppose anything that may harm or threaten them. Quakers seek religious truth in inner experience and place great reliance on conscience as the basis of morality.

The Sue Thomas Turner Quaker Education Fund of Baltimore Yearly Meeting was established in recognition of Sue Thomas Turner’s long support of Quaker education and Quaker values in public education. The fund is targeted for Friends schools under the care of a Friends Meeting, but is available to any school community.

At Lancaster Friends School, students will learn about and practice group decision-making using the Quaker model, which is neither voting nor consensus, but a search for the “sense of the meeting”. This model acknowledges that not everyone may agree, but by searching open-heartedly together, solutions to seemingly intractable problems can be addressed.