(Washington Post) The students gathered in the historic Sandy Spring Friends Meeting House, a white clapboard building that forms the heart of the Quaker school. Normally, this was a time for quiet reflection and discussion of high school concerns like the quality of cafeteria food, driver's education and pep rallies.
But this time, members of the Upper School student government, called Torch, waded into an issue that has left grown-ups bitterly divided: The debate about the appropriateness of the Washington Redskins' name.