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Scattergood Friends School in Cedar County, Iowa, educates students in grades nine through twelve. Founded in 1890 by Iowa Wilburite Quakers to provide a "guarded education" for their children, it is owned and operated by Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative). The school closed for a period during the Great Depression. Alarmed at the increasing anti-Semitism and political suppression by the Nazi Party of Germany at the time of Kristallnacht, Quakers of Iowa proposed in 1939 to receive refugees from Germany and house them at the Scattergood School. From 1939 through 1943, they operated what they called the 'Scattergood Hostel,' accepting a total of 185 refugees and helping them to resettle in the United States.〔Luick-Thrams, Michael. ''Out of Hitler's Reach: The Scattergood Hostel For European Refugees, 1939-1943,'' Iowa State Press, 1997〕〔(Joe Peters, "Traces will close strapped St. Paul WWII museum, will keep Web site, bus exhibit" ), 9 November 2008, accessed 17 September 2015〕 After 1943 refugees were unable to leave Germany. After the end of the war, the school was reopened for educational operations. Since the late 20th century, about one third of students and staff have been Quakers, with the rest coming from many faiths. ==Background== Scattergood School, founded in 1890, is located in Cedar County, Iowa, two miles (3 km) east and one half mile south of the town of West Branch. It offers a college preparatory curriculum for grades nine through twelve. Owned and operated by Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative), the school is accredited by the Iowa Department of Education and by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS). In addition to academic achievement, the Scattergood program emphasizes community life, responsible world citizenship, and communal work. Although there are several day students each year, nearly all students reside in dormitories (housing 60 sutdents) on campus. Likewise, most of the 25 faculty and staff live in on-campus apartments. The school is based on small class sizes and a family atmosphere. Teaching and learning at Scattergood take place in many settings beyond the classroom. The campus includes a pond/marsh, a prairie, and a farm with a variety of livestock and of organic vegetable production. Everyone at Scattergood participates in a communal work program, called the crew system. This includes everything from working on the farm to making daily breakfast for members of the school. Similarly, all cleaning on campus is done by jointly by students and staff. Work assignments rotate monthly. Roughly a quarter of Scattergood students come from outside the United States. Former Bolivian president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, who was overthrown as a result of popular protest, is a Scattergood graduate.〔Julie Deardorff, ("Bolivian President More Comfortable Playing Soccer Than Watching" ), ''Chicago Tribune,'' 16 June 1994〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scattergood Friends School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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