Private ungraded elementary and secondary democratic free school
Motto
“Where children are free to be themselves”
Established
2004
Founder
Alan Berger
NCES School ID
A0701595[1]
Director
Noleca Radway
Faculty
8 (2014)
Grades
Ungraded (ages 4 to 18)
Enrollment
80 (2015)
Campus type
Urban
Affiliation
Nonsectarian
Website
brooklynfreeschool.org
The Brooklyn Free School is a private, ungraded, democratic free school in Brooklyn, founded in 2004. Students range in age from 4 to 18 years old. The school follows the noncoercive philosophy of the 1960s/70s free school movement schools, which encourages self-directed learning and protects child freedom of activity. There are no grades, no tests, no homework, and classes are non-compulsory. In 2015, the school enrolls 80 students and has about 24 graduates.
The school was the first free school in New York City since 1975. It started in a rented portion of a Park Slope Methodist church, and then moved to a brownstone in Fort Greene, and then was living in the Brooklyn Public Library, And shortly after moved to a place called "Major Owens Center" and then moved to Restoration Plaza, on Fulton Street. Students participate in the design of classes and in the school's governance, which is done at a weekly Democratic Meeting. Staff and students all have equal votes. The school is funded through sliding-scale tuition, grants, and donations. In 2012, Lucas Kavner of The Huffington Post called the Brooklyn Free School "arguably New York's most radical center of learning".[2]
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