History
The school is named for Mary and Walter Woodward, who was a co-editor of the Bainbridge Island Review, which in World War II, criticized President Franklin D. Roosevelt for his decision to intern Japanese Americans. The school was founded in 1994. In 2004 Woodward received the blue Ribbon award from No Child Left Behind.
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“Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized—the question involuntarily arises—to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
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