Curriculum and Programs

Affinity Groups

The primary purpose of affinity groups

To affirm, protect, and nurture the racial and cultural identities of students of color.

Cambridge Friends School acknowledges that students of color experience natural feelings of kinship with one another. Affinity groups foster this kinship and provide students of color with

• a nurturing environment in which they can freely and confidently be who they are, and share with others what they inherently bring into the school community.

• a protective space where they can feel less isolated than they do in the classroom where most of the other students may be white.

• spontaneous ways to give support to and receive support from one another and from adults of color in the community.