The barefoot students of a century ago in their bright fezzes and crisp aprons have become a page in history.
Segregated education is now a memory.
Where once girls and boys gotogether only for Sunday Meeting at the Friends Meeting House, they now mingle daily in co-ed classes and are friends. The simple blue tunic with its box pleats has been replaced by a unisex uniform of trousers, shirts and jersey. The simple village children of a century ago have been replaced by sophisticated, cosmopolitan young people who access the internet, watch films brought by satellite dish, travel abroad, and carry cellular phones in their bookbags, the simple has been replaced and often forgotten. In the hundred years of the Friends presence in Palestine, governments have come and gone. The Ottoman Turks, the British Mandate, the Kingdom of Jordan, the Israeli Occupation and now the Palestinian Authority.