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SPICES. A cute acronym for powerful concepts: simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, stewardship. I attended a Quaker high school, and to instill in us the indispensable Quaker values, we wrote SPICES on white boards and invoked it in class discussions. These ideals governed my educational experience, supposedly. Never mind that when I was in ninth grade, the school undertook a million-dollar renovation project, or that there was a sharp economic and social divide between students on scholarship and students whose families had private planes. These values, so intensely lauded, were not upheld, and it was the school’s degradation of stewardship that bothered me the most. Each year, we were required to complete a certain number of service hours. Ideally, students would want to devote a significant amount of their time to something like bettering the planet or caring for abused animals. In reality, students might spend 30 minutes making a poster about the climate crisis and re

SPICES. A cute acronym for powerful concepts: simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, stewardship. I attended a Quaker high school, and to instill in us the indispensable Quaker values, we wrote SPICES on white boards and invoked it in class discussions. These ideals governed my educational experience, supposedly. Never mind that when I was in ninth grade, the school undertook a million-dollar renovation project, or that there was a sharp economic and social divide between students on scholarship and students whose families had private planes. These values, so intensely lauded, were

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