Communities
Tomlinson students are divided into "communities" (called teams and pods at the other Fairfield middle schools). For many years there has been three sixth grade communities, and two for both seventh and eighth grade (two in each). The names of each community were taken from the 'TMS' acronym. Sixth grade had T, M, and S, seventh and eighth each had T and S. However with the 2009-10 school year brought extra sixth graders, which called the need for a fourth sixth grade community. G was picked up from Tomlinson's namesake, Gideon Tomlinson. Typically there are four teachers in each community, with certain teachers sharing grades and communities. Languages (Spanish and French are offered) are mixed-community, as are "UA's" (Unified Arts)
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“Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, or we are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)